Dickinson Songs: I heard a fly - Langer, Kenneth

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◈ Genre → Art songs

♯ Key A minor

⁄ Time Signature 5/4

♬ Voicing → Solo Soprano

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range A2 – C7

¶ Language → English

Measures 36

Texture mixed texture

Parts 3

Instruments Keyboard

Pages 3

CPDL # 84992

Editor Kenneth Langer

Posted 2025-05-20

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

voice

E4 – F5

MusicXML Part

A2 – A5

¶Lyrics / Text

I heard a fly buzz when I died. The stillness round my form was like the stillness in the air between the heaves of storm. The eyes beside had wrung them dry and breaths were gath'ring sure for the last onset when the king be witnessed in his power. I willed my keepsakes signed away what portion of me I could make assignable and then there interposed a fly with blue uncertain stumbling buzz between the light and me and then the windows failed and I could not see to see.