Category: Vocal Music / Art Song
Instrumentation: voice, piano
Duration: 2 minutes
Difficulty: Lower intermediate
Text / Source: Poem by Sara Teasdale
Publisher: Alymar

Your Face Is Beautiful is a brief lyrical art song setting words by Sara Teasdale. Written in ABA′ form, the song offers a direct and tender expression of great love, shaped through Baxter’s clear melodic writing and intimate approach to text setting.

Suitable for lower-intermediate performers, Your Face Is Beautiful is well suited for vocal recitals, student programs, and concerts centered on love poetry and lyrical American art song. Its concise form and expressive clarity invite warm tone, natural phrasing, and sensitive attention to the poem’s emotional simplicity.