From: Four Views of Love
Category: Vocal Music / Art Song
Instrumentation: voice, piano
Duration: 1.5 minutes
Difficulty: Intermediate
Text / Source: Poem by Sara Teasdale
Publisher: North Star Music / Alymar

Let It Be You is a brief, expressive song of deep love, dedicated to Baxter’s wife, Katherine. Setting words by Sara Teasdale, the song presents love with tenderness, warmth, and direct emotional sincerity.

The work is in binary form, with the same melodic figure opening both sections. Somewhat chromatic but deeply lyrical, Let It Be You reflects Baxter’s gift for shaping intimate poetry through clear melodic expression and expressive harmonic color.

Suitable for intermediate performers, Let It Be You calls for warmth of tone, natural phrasing, and a quiet sense of devotion. The repeated opening figure should help unify the two sections while allowing each to grow expressively.