Copy of original loaned by William Shannon Stoney.
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This set of songs for soprano and piano is
titled Six Songs of Nature, and was completed in 1970. The five
poems by Emily Dickinson that serve as the texts are not cyclical but they
are unified by common imagery which hovers around the natural world. The
titles of the poems used are: "I'll tell you how the sun rose," "Some keep
the sabbath going to church," "As imperceptibly as grief," "The moon was
but a chin of gold," "There's a certain slant of light," and "The grass
so little has to do." The songs are tonally centered, though frequent key
migrations, generally not specified, can be noticed within each of the
movements. For the most part, the voice and keyboard parts show definite
independence of one another with the keyboard often providing punctuational
emphasis based on the text.
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