The Shining Place

Song TitleThe Shining Place (Search)
Composer(s):Lee Hoiby
Composer Underrepresented GroupLGBTQ+ (Search)
Author(s):Emily Dickinson
Author Underrepresented GroupWoman (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Afterlife; Angels; Bashful; Coming; Dazzling; Ears; Eternal Life; Everlasting Life; Faces; Fame; Feet; Foreign; Forgetting; Hearing; Heaven; Holidays; Hope; Names; Paradise; Places; Pronouncing; Religion; Remembering; Saints; Shining; Sounds; Welcome
First LineMe — come! My dazzled face (Search)
Average Duration1:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1989 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://songofamerica.net/song/shining-place/
Larger WorkThe Shining Place (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc_23wnov08
Catalog DesignationNo. 1 (Search)
Range: E4 - G5 (Search)
Original KeyC Major (Search)
Recommended Printed Sourcehttps://www.worldcat.org/title/shining-place-five-poems-of-emily-dickinson-for-high-voice-and-piano/oclc/50549697&referer=brief_results (Search)
ContributorGTM , Hyewon Kim (Search)
Contributor Affiliation Georgia Southern University (Search)
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