Editing Appalachian Spring (section)

=== The Lord's Day ===
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\new Staff \relative c'' { \set Staff.midiInstrument = "string ensemble 1" \set Staff.midiMaximumVolume = #0.6 \clef treble \key c \major \time 3/4 \tempo "Moderato (like a prayer)" 4 = 66 r4 <g ees bes>4--(_\markup { \dynamic pp \italic \small { misterioso } } <f d a>)-- | \time 4/4 <e c g>( <g e! b!>2) <f d a>4~ | \time 3/4 <f d a>) }
\new Staff \relative c { \set Staff.midiInstrument = "string ensemble 1" \clef bass \key c \major \time 3/4 r4 ees--(\pp g,--) | c( e!2) d4~ | \time 3/4 d } >>
} </score>}}

A gentle hymnlike melody, marked "like a prayer", is heard in the strings as the community gathers for prayer.{{Sfn|Pollack|1999|p=399}}{{Sfn|Crist|2005|p=175}}{{Sfn|Copland|2000|p=97}} The chorale is stated a final time, followed by the return of the opening theme.{{Sfn|Fauser|2017|pp=74–75}} Graham wrote that this episode "could have the feeling of a Shaker meeting where the movement is strange and ordered and possessed or it could have the feeling of a negro church with the lyric ecstasy of the spiritual about it".{{Sfn|Pollack|1999|p=396}} The Bride dances her final solo and finishes by putting her hand to her lips and then reaching out to the sky. The Husbandman returns and holds her briefly, but the Revivalist comes and touches his shoulder.{{Sfn|Crist|2005|p=175}} As the music from the "Prologue" returns, the Bride sits in the rocking chair that the Pioneer Woman sat in and she looks over the empty stage. The Husbandman rests his hand on her shoulder and the Bride reaches out at the clarinet's last note. The music slowly fades to silence on the opening polychord and the curtain falls.{{Sfn|Crist|2005|p=176}}{{Sfn|de Mille|1991|p=262}}{{Sfn|Fauser|2017|p=75}}