Hope

for SATB chorus and piano

by Emily Hope

Emily Dickinson’s poem, “Hope is the thing with feathers” is one of the most beloved among her corpus of work, and for good reason. This setting is an expression of the poem’s sweetness as well as its dramatic intensity, with a “tune without the words” established early in the piece that returns after the harrowing journey through the “chillest land” and “strangest sea.”

SKU: EHE-011 Categories: Choral Music, Mixed Voices

Descriptive Tags:	Birds, Hope, Inspiration, Poetry, Singing, Struggle
Difficulty:	Medium
Duration:	1-5 Minutes
Instrumentation:	Piano
Language:	English
Sacred or Secular:	Secular
Voicing:	SATB

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