HOW DO I LOVE THEE?

HOW DO I LOVE THEE?
5 Songs for Soprano and Piano
on Sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Publisher
E. C. Schirmer Music Company

Catalog Number
8568

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Description
HOW DO I LOVE THEE? follows a narrative arc, beginning with a proclamation by the speaker against the love she feels, after which that love becomes too great to disavow. Throughout the cycle, the speaker’s love grows and ends with a declaration of love that will live beyond the lives of the speaker and the object of her love, a love that lives forever.

Text
1 – Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!
2 – How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
3 – Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make
4 – Say over again, and yet once over again
5 – I thank all who have loved me in their hearts

Vocal Range
C-sharp 4  :  B 5

Duration
17′ 00″

Vocal Tessitura
G 4  :  E 5

Year of Composition
2015

First Performance
September 29, 2018
Contemporary Undercurrent of Song Project
Princeton, New Jersey

First Performers
Martha Guth, soprano
Erika Switzer, piano

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Martha Guth, soprano
Erika Switzer, piano