The Music of Lori Laitman, now available as PDFs
If I...(the last of the Four Dickinson Songs) Tenor and Piano (priced for 2 copies)
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- Composer
- Lori Laitman
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Lyricist
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Emily Dickinson
- Publisher
- Enchanted Knickers Music
- Genre
-
Classical / Song
- Instrumentation
- Piano, Tenor
- Scored for
- Solo, Accompanying piano
- Type of score
- Piano-vocal score
- Duration
- 2'22"
- Language
- English
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Year of composition
- 1996
Description
I composed Four Dickinson Songs in the spring of 1996, and the last of the songs, If I..., was written as a gift for my father’s 80th birthday. Its simple, accessible melody passes from voice to piano and back again before ending with the singer humming. My father lived to be almost 100 — and this song always reminds me of him.
You can hear Jennifer Check and Warren Jones perform this on YouTube at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-Zs-qNkyTo