{"id":78242,"date":"2021-04-26T12:07:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T19:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/?p=78242"},"modified":"2022-01-11T10:14:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T18:14:18","slug":"an-emily-dickinson-playlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/an-emily-dickinson-playlist\/","title":{"rendered":"An Emily Dickinson Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music is a natural complement to the poetry of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). Her lyrical voice is often cast in the singable meters of American hymnody: for example, just try singing this Dickinson text to the tune of \u201cAmazing Grace:\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bee is not afraid of me.<br \/>\nI know the Butterfly.<br \/>\nThe pretty people in the Woods<br \/>\nReceive me cordially \u2014<\/p>\n<p>The line between music and text can blur in Dickinson\u2019s poetry. Not only does poetry sing for Emily Dickinson, but music talks as well:<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve heard an Organ talk, sometimes \u2014<br \/>\nIn a Cathedral Aisle,<br \/>\nAnd understood no word it said \u2014<br \/>\nYet held my breath, the while \u2014<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no wonder that composers are often drawn to Emily Dickinson. In honor of National Poetry Month, here is a playlist featuring just a few of the pieces inspired by her work.<\/p>\n<p>Dickinson\u2019s idiosyncratic punctuation and syntax led to a variety of editorial changes in printed versions of her poems. The poems quoted in this article are mostly taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/The_Poems_of_Emily_Dickinson\/LoH2SXEnnoEC?hl=en&amp;gbpv=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Poems of Emily Dickinson<\/a>, edited by Thomas H. Johnson. In some of these musical works, the text set to music differs slightly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music is a natural complement to the poetry of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). Her lyrical voice is often cast in the singable meters of American hymnody: for example, just try singing this Dickinson text to the tune of \u201cAmazing Grace:\u201d The Bee is not afraid of me. I know the Butterfly. The pretty people in the &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":78284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4044],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playlist"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-12-01 11:37:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}