| Description |
1 score (78 pages) ; 31 cm. |
| Playing Time |
003500 |
| Description |
score |
| Series |
Oxford vocal music
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Oxford vocal music.
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| Note |
For soprano and two baritones, singly or in combination, and piano. |
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Cover title. |
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Texts selected from the poems and letters of Emily Dickinson, and letters of T.W. Higginson. |
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Duration: 35:00. |
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Biographical note on page [2] of cover; composer's note precedes score. |
| Contents |
Cavatina : letter from T.W. Higginson to his wife, quoting Emily Dickinson : If I read a book -- Arietta parlante : letter from Dickinson to T.W. Higginson, 7 June 1862 : Dear friend, your letter gave no drunkenness -- Aria : Fame is a fickle food -- Moto perpetuo : Fame is the one that does not stay -- Arietta : Fame is a bee -- Quodlibet I -- Arioso : letter to T.W. Higginson, July 1862 : Could you believe me -- Aria di campane : letter to T.W. Higginson, 16 August 1870 : Dear friend, I will be at home and glad -- Recitative : letter from Higginson to his wife, describing his first visit to E.D. : A large county lawyer's house -- Catch : Higginson's letter continued, quoting Dickinson : Women talk -- Chaconne : Your thoughts don't have words every day -- Coranto : Forbidden fruit a flavor has -- Passacaglia : Higginson's letter to his wife, continued : When I said I would come again -- Trio : If you were coming in the fall -- Cantilena I : letter to T.W. Higginson, early June 1878 : Dear friend, when you wrote -- Cantilena II : As imperceptibly as grief -- Aria : Wonder is not precisely knowing -- Aria : Whether they have forgotten -- Quodlibet II -- Hymn : We never know how high we are -- Epilogue : Nature the gentlest mother is. |
| Language |
English words, also printed separately as text on pages [73]-78. |
| Genre/Form |
Song cycles.
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Song cycles.
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| Subject |
Songs (High voice) with piano.
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Songs (High voice) with piano. |
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Songs (Medium voice) with piano.
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Songs (Medium voice) with piano. |
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Vocal duets with piano.
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Vocal duets with piano. |
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Vocal trios with piano.
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Vocal trios with piano. |
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Vocal trios, Unaccompanied.
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Vocal trios, Unaccompanied. |
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Musical settings.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. |
| Genre/Form |
Musical settings.
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| Subject |
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Songs and music.
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| Genre/Form |
Songs and music.
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| Subject |
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 -- Musical settings.
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Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911. |
| Genre/Form |
Songs.
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Songs.
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Musical settings.
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Scores.
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Scores.
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| Added Author |
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
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Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911.
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| ISBN |
0193863448 |
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9780193863446 |
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