O Hototogisu!
Fragment of a Japonisme
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UPC: 9780571541119
Model Number: 12-0571541119
Brand: Alfred Publishing
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This exquisite "fragment of a Japonisme"---premiered in 2017 and conceived as a kind of double concerto for soprano, flute, and ensemble of 23 players---O Hototogisu! has proven to be Oliver Knussen's final work. The eight-minute piece couches seven exquisite haiku settings in richly evocative music, which incorporates signals from Japanese theater (particularly Kabuki). It concerns the Hototogisu (or Lesser Cuckoo), a bird widely invoked in Japanese haiku poetry of the 17th to 19th centuries, in which the poet listens for its arrival from the mountains both as a harbinger of summer and a voice from the land of the dead. Composed for soprano, flute, and full orchestra.
Product Features
- Format: Score
- Instrument: Full Orchestra
- Category: Full Orchestra
- Contributors: By Oliver Knussen
- Pub Date: 10/2019
- Series: Faber Edition
- Level: Advanced
- ISBN 10: 0571541119
- ISBN 13: 9780571541119