The Flower
| Song Title | The Flower (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Libby Larsen |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | Woman (Search) |
| Author(s): | George Herbert |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Addressee: God; Amiss; Bells; Blowing; Bringing; Chiming; Christian Worship Service; Clean; Cold; Connection to Nature; Dead; Death; Departing; Flowers; Fresh; Frost; God; Green; Grief; Hard; Hearts; Heaven; Hell; Hours; Houses; Killing; Life; Lord; May; Melting; Metaphor: Grief as Snow; Metaphor: Heart as Flower; Metaphor: Speaker as Flower; Mothers; Nature; Pleasure; Power; Quickening; Recovering; Reflection; Return; Roots; Shriveled; Snow; Spelling; Spring; Sweet; Tributes; Underground; Unknown; Weather; Wondering; Wonders; Words; World |
| First Line | How fresh, O Lord, how sweet and clean (Search) |
| Average Duration | 4:45 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 2009 (Search) Circa |
| Link to English Text Online | https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=305700 |
| Musical Form | Through-composed (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Score Source | https://libbylarsen.com/index.php?productID=2321&contentID=1793 |
| Audio Source | https://libbylarsen.com/works/the-flower |
| Difficulty Level | College (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Baritone |
| Range: | A3 - E4 (Search) |
| Dedicated To | Greg Funfgeld and the Bach Choir of Bethlehem (Search) |
| Premiered By | William Sharp (Search) |
| Commissioned By | Greg Funfgeld (Search) |
| Notes | Premiered May 1, 2009; William Sharp, baritone; Thomas Goeman, piano (Search) |
| Recommended Printed Source | libbylarsen.com (Search) |
| Contributor | GTM , Shaquille St. John (Search) |
| Contributor Affiliation | Georgia Southern University (Search) |