FOUR POEMS BY EMILY DICKINSON
FOUR POEMS BY EMILY DICKINSON
Soprano, flute, clarinet
Angular, taut, centrifugal, highly dramatic. The composer sculpts every syllable of the romantic recluse's spare verse, and surrounds the straining singer with virtuoso woodwind rustling reminiscent of the "harmony of nature" that is the subject of the final poem. The lack of a piano or other harmony instrument in this work, makes the texture unforgiving of miscalculation. Blank saves the flute-clarinet duet for the two outer songs, restricting the accompaniment of the central two to flute and then to clarinet alone. His use of tritones as structural points is familiar, but his use of unisons, octaves and other intervals considered consonant, highlights the complex textural interplay of the three lines.
Movements: How happy is the little stone, In this short life, Surgeons must be very careful, Nature is what we see
Authored (or revised): 1974
Text source: Text:Emily Dickinson:PD
Duration (minutes): 8
Book format: Performance score
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ACA-BLAL-036Subtotal
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