Soprano voice and piano - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8317-2E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. Secular, 21st century. 4 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8317-2E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8317-2E). The poetry of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) is especially appealing due to the wide range of topics, diversity of mood and peculiar imagination of the poet. The writings are reflective, passionate, witty, sensuous, observant and ridiculously humorous. Her heart soars. Her mind pokes fun! Emily was truly a New Englander. Her poems are understated and compact. Her love of Nature focuses on small things- birds, bees, meadows and a pond. In creating the musical settings, the composer (herself a New Englander) endeavored to capture the spirit of the poetry, and of the poet, with songs diverse in style, and concise in form. Everything from romance to frogs is explored, briefly. Great delight is taken in creating musical translations of the colorful imagery: the shimmering moonlight (The Moon and the Sea). These are the poet's Letters to the World. She lived as a recluse, yet her words took flight-traveling the universe as messengers of the soul.

Soprano voice,Vocal Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.903801 Composed by Alan Edgar and Jane Tims. Contemporary. 4 pages. Alan Edgar Ted Moon #6598567. Published by Alan Edgar Ted Moon (A0.903801).  I searched for animals singing the harmonic series--this led me to the Hermit Thrush, a native of north America. The singer imitates the bird and sings a setting of a poem about the bird by Jane Tims, who writes: I think your score is as delightful as the bird it is written for. It also helped me see my poetry in a whole different way. Makes me proud to be a poet.

Soprano voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939663 Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century. 9 pages. Richard St. Clair #3000385. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939663). A modern-day romantic style setting of William Wordsworth's 1798 poem, A Night-Piece for mezzo-soprano with piano accompaniment. Duration about 5 minutes. The style is mostly tonal but with some nontraditional harmonies. The attached MP3 Audio Clip is computer-generated.Lyrics:A NIGHT-PIECEby William Wordsworth THE sky is overcast With a continuous cloud of texture close, Heavy and wan, all whitened by the Moon, Which through that veil is indistinctly seen, A dull, contracted circle, yielding light So feebly spread, that not a shadow falls, Chequering the ground--from rock, plant, tree, or tower. At length a pleasant instantaneous gleam Startles the pensive traveller while he treads His lonesome path, with unobserving eye 10 Bent earthwards; he looks up--the clouds are split Asunder,--and above his head he sees The clear Moon, and the glory of the heavens. There, in a black-blue vault she sails along, Followed by multitudes of stars, that, small And sharp, and bright, along the dark abyss Drive as she drives: how fast they wheel away, Yet vanish not!--the wind is in the tree, But they are silent;--still they roll along Immeasurably distant; and the vault, 20 Built round by those white clouds, enormous clouds, Still deepens its unfathomable depth. At length the Vision closes; and the mind, Not undisturbed by the delight it feels, Which slowly settles into peaceful calm, Is left to muse upon the solemn scene. 1798.