dusk in june (satb)
- Catalog ID: S-242
- First Line: evening, and all the birds a chorus of shimmering sound
- Composer: Phyllis E. Zimmerman
- Voicing: satb
- Solo: S
- Accompaniment: a cappella
- Language: English
- Country: United States
- Other: 2006 women
- Score: View Score
- Sound: Listen
Price:
$2.10
Description
This octavo contains four settings of the poems by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933). The four poems in this octavo are: “Life Has Loveliness to Sell,” “To-Night,” “Dusk in June,” and “I Would Live in Your Love.”
“Dusk in June” seems rhythmically linked to “To-Night,” but adds a precious device of overlapping echoes on “joy” and “sing” and the final “night.” At first evocative of the shimmering sound of the birds, the repetitions act like a sequence of firework bursts, creating a feeling of expansive space and freedom. When the device is applied to the final lines, the poet’s wish to sing like the birds is simultaneously granted.