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Timothy Hoekman
Composer Timothy Hoekman has written in many genres and has works published by Theodore Presser, Colla Voce, Plymouth Music Company, Recital Publications, and Classical Vocal Reprints. He was recently announced as the winner of the Delta Omicron 2025 Triennial Composition Competition for his Bagatelles for Clarinet and Piano, and in 2002 he was the MTNA-Shepherd...
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Nobody Knows This Little Rose
An easy 3-part canon with a well-known Emily Dickinson poem.
3 equal voices (soloists or chorus), piano
Emily Dickinson’s little rose is actually known by many people, thanks to her famous poem. Hoekman’s setting is for three equal voices and is especially appropriate for middle school and high school treble choruses.
Text
Nobody knows this little Rose —
It might a pilgrim be
Did I not take it from the ways
And lift it up to thee.
Only a Bee will miss it —
Only a Butterfly,
Hastening from far journey —
On its breast to lie —
Only a Bird will wonder —
Only a Breeze will sigh —
Ah Little Rose — how easy
For such as thee to die!
-Emily Dickinson
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