Mamlok, U: Haiku Settings
soprano and flute (SOP/FLT)
Mamlok, U: Haiku Settings
soprano and flute (SOP/FLT)
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In this collection, created in 1967, Ursula Mamlock has set five traditional Japanese haikus, a very short and concise form of poetry, to music. The settings are of English versions of these poems by different Japanese authors.
Contents
- I. So cold are the waves (Basho)
- II. When a nightingale sang out (Jurin)
- III. A leaf is falling (Ransetsu )
- IV. A tree frog softly begins to trill (Rogetsu)
- V. How cool the green hay smells (Boncho)
