To Make a Prairie

for SATB chorus and piano

by Emily Hope

Emily Dickinson’s short and quippy poem, “To make a prairie” has a great depth of meaning despite its brevity, in its portrayal of the power of imagination. This setting captures the broad sweep of the prairie landscape in its bright opening chords, and the dreamy state of imagnining in a shimmering but intensifying middle section, then trails off in hazy tone clusters with the buzzing of bees.

SKU: EHE-012 Categories: Choral Music, Mixed Voices

Descriptive Tags:	American, Dream, Flowers, Imagination, Inspiration, Nature, Poetry
Difficulty:	Medium
Duration:	1-5 Minutes
Instrumentation:	Piano
Language:	English
Sacred or Secular:	Secular
Voicing:	SATB

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