ME = Moderately Easy
M = Medium
MD = Moderately Difficult
D = Difficult
To Make a Prairie (Emily Dickinson)
SSA, piano - SEA-016-00 - $1.75/copy3 minutes - M Featured in Choral Journal's 2004 article "Quality Music for Women's Choirs" (Catherine Roma)
A delicate setting of Emily Dickinson's timeless poem about the power of dreams, the crucial ingredient of creation. The opening lines are sung in open octaves, creating a hollow, flutelike sound; not until the mystical word "revery" does a richer chord appear in the voices. Arpeggios in the piano sweep in irregularly, touched with haunting dissonances and understated syncopations.
To Make a Prairie - Score
To Make a Prairie - Recording
Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus (now known as Anima) ~ Emily Ellsworth, conductor
Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus (now known as Anima) ~ Emily Ellsworth, conductor
To Make a Prairie
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee ---
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
"To Make a Prairie" copyright by Little, Brown and Company. Reprinted by permission.
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee ---
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
"To Make a Prairie" copyright by Little, Brown and Company. Reprinted by permission.
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