Dickinson’s first line reads “Because I could not stop for death”. The score reads “Because I would not stop for death.”
Locations in Harold's Library
- Aaron Copland: Art Songs and Arias (High Voice) (book)
- page 76
- Instrumentation: high voice • piano
- Key: F#m
- Time signature: C
- Tempo indication: WIth quiet grace
- Metronome marking: 4=72-76
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