From: Four Views of Love
Category: Vocal Music / Art Song
Instrumentation: voice, piano
Duration: 2.5 minutes
Difficulty: Intermediate
Text / Source: Poem by Sara Teasdale
Publisher: North Star Music / Alymar

Let It Be Forgotten sets Sara Teasdale’s melancholy poem in a romantic and expressive musical language. The song reflects a mood of sorrowful release, giving voice to the desire for painful memory to fade quietly away.

The work is through-composed, with a recurring piano figure that provides continuity across the song’s emotional unfolding. Baxter’s setting emphasizes the poem’s introspective tone through lyrical vocal writing and a sensitive piano part that deepens the sense of remembrance and resignation.

Suitable for intermediate performers, Let It Be Forgotten requires restrained expressivity, careful breath pacing, and close attention to the recurring piano figure. The song should unfold as a continuous emotional reflection rather than a series of separate gestures.