I Died For Beauty

Compositions -> Choral -> I Died For Beauty (2008)

Mixed Choir (SSAATTBB)

Duration 2:30

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Price: $1.49 (Digital Scores) Number of Copies (minimum 8):  [questions?] This setting of a text by Emily Dickinson imagines a conversation after death between two spiritual allies; finding mutual comfort in eachother's voices, they gradually forget the anxiety and trauma of death, and of life, as eons pass underground. I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He asked me softly why I failed? "For beauty," I replied. "And I for truth, the two are one; We brethren are," he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names. Emily Dickenson (1830 - 1886)

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