New Mexico Composers' Archive
Publication Date
12-2-2010
Sponsorship
Digitized with funding from the Center for Regional Studies.
Table of Contents
Prelude ("Because I could not stop for death") / words by Emily Dickinson -- Analecta ("Life was never created") -- Voices returned ("Just lost when I was saved") / words by Emily Dickinson -- Interlude ("Underneath everything is love") -- Carol of the bird ("Come lovely and soothing death"--Death Carol from "When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed") / words by Walt Whitman.
Description
Copy of original manuscript. Piece is for vocal soloists, Mixed chorus, and Instrument ensemble.
Language
English
Keywords
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with instrumental ensemble) -- Scores, Death -- Songs and music., Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Musical settings, Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Musical settings
Document Type
Musical Score
Recommended Citation
Dickinson, Emily; Walt Whitman; and Alan Stringer. "Canticle." (2010). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nm_composer_archive/470