The Bird her punctual music brings
VIDEO
Young Women's Choral Projects of San Francisco; Martín Benvenuto, conductor
The commissioners have exclusive commercial recording rights until January 31, 2025.
DURATION
3’50"
INSTRUMENTATION
SSAA treble choir, piano
POET
Emily Dickinson
YEAR COMPOSED
2022
COMMISSIONER
Young Women's Choral Projects of San Francisco
ORDERING SCORES
This work is published as a digital score with a performance license. The pricing is based on the number of singers in a choir:
Young Women's Choral Projects of San Francisco; Martín Benvenuto, conductor
The commissioners have exclusive commercial recording rights until January 31, 2025.
DURATION
3’50"
INSTRUMENTATION
SSAA treble choir, piano
POET
Emily Dickinson
YEAR COMPOSED
2022
COMMISSIONER
Young Women's Choral Projects of San Francisco
ORDERING SCORES
This work is published as a digital score with a performance license. The pricing is based on the number of singers in a choir:
- $50: up to 20 singers
- $100: 21-50 singers
- $150: 51-79 singers
- $200: 80+ singers
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TEXT
The Bird her punctual music brings
And lays it in its place
Its place is in the Human Heart
And in the Heavenly Grace
What respite from her thrilling toil
Did Beauty ever take
But Work might be electric Rest
To those that Magic make
PERMISSIONS
THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1951, 1955 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © renewed 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1914, 1918, 1919, 1924,1929, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1942, by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Copyright © 1952, 1957, 1958, 1963, 1965, by Mary L. Hampson.
The Bird her punctual music brings
And lays it in its place
Its place is in the Human Heart
And in the Heavenly Grace
What respite from her thrilling toil
Did Beauty ever take
But Work might be electric Rest
To those that Magic make
PERMISSIONS
THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1951, 1955 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © renewed 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1914, 1918, 1919, 1924,1929, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1942, by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Copyright © 1952, 1957, 1958, 1963, 1965, by Mary L. Hampson.