liquid harmony is a composition written for tuned wine glasses, vocal whispering, and spoken word narration. This was an idea I had that came from different choral composers using tuned wine glasses underneath the choir, which would create different chords as the piece went along. Using this idea in a much smaller form, I decided to take the text "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" by Emily Dickinson and create an array of note combinations using only five different glass tunings. The timbre accompanies the text to accentuate the deeper meaning to Dickinson’s poem.

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"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" by Emily Dickinson

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I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,

And Mourners to and fro

Kept treading - treading - till it seemed

That Sense was breaking through -

 

And when they all were seated,

A Service, like a Drum -

Kept beating - beating - till I thought

My mind was going numb -

 

And then I heard them lift a Box

And creak across my Soul

With those same Boots of Lead, again,

Then Space - began to toll,

 

As all the Heavens were a Bell,

And Being, but an Ear,

And I, and Silence, some strange Race,

Wrecked, solitary, here -

 

And then a Plank in Reason, broke,

And I dropped down, and down -

And hit a World, at every plunge,

And Finished knowing - then -