Will There Really Be a "Morning"?
TTBB, a cappella
Length: 3:00
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TTBB, a cappella
Length: 3:00
Download perusal score.
Minimum order quantity: 10
Note: This is a digital score (PDF).
*If you need to purchase fewer copies than allowed, please fill out this form for special requests!
TTBB, a cappella
Length: 3:00
Download perusal score.
Minimum order quantity: 10
Note: This is a digital score (PDF).
*If you need to purchase fewer copies than allowed, please fill out this form for special requests!
Description
In 2018 after my freshmen year at Texas Christian University, I was invited to do a residency as a paid singer for Simpson College’s new 3-Summer M.M. program in Conducting. For the whole summer, I roomed with three other talented singers (Cameron Rolling, Jacob Lay, and Jared Campbell), and we formed our own little TTBB quartet. We sang four-part tenor/bass music every night, and finally I decided to write my own piece for us to sing. I have known about Emily Dickinson’s simple and beautiful poem entitled “Will There Really Be a ‘Morning’?” for a long time, and I knew I would set it one day. I used this as my opportunity to write a TTBB choral piece.
The title of the piece presents such a deep question, and yet, there is a sense of simplicity and awe behind Dickinson’s words. The music begins low and soft, as if the sun is still rising.
Will There Really Be a “Morning”?
Will there really be a "Morning"?
Is there such a thing as "Day"?
Could I see it from the mountains
If I were as tall as they?
Has it feet like Water lilies?
Has it feathers like a Bird?
Is it brought from famous countries
Of which I have never heard?
Oh some Scholar! Oh some Sailor!
Oh some Wise Men from the skies!
Please to tell a little Pilgrim
Where the place called "Morning" lies!
–Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
