Three haiku (12-part choir)
Vocal work by Martin Lohse composed over 3 poems by the old haiku master Matsuo Bashō rewritten by the Danish poet Hans-Jørgen Nielsen
Contents
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Recording
Tempelklokken (The temple bell)
Havet (The sea)
Verden én farve (The world one color)
Studio-recording from a workshop by Ars Nova at Danish Radio, Studio 2
Versions
Part of the work is used in the electroacoustic works:
Vibration in blue and yellow II (tape) (2000)
Info
Composer Martin Lohse
Author Hans-Jørgen Nielsen
Title Three haiku
Work number W.7
Composition year 1999-2000
Movements 3
Duration 7 min
Genre vocal music
Instrumentation 12-part choir
Score notation handwritten
Pages 15
Free score yes
Published yes
First performance 1999
- by Ars Nova
- place Danish Radio, Studio 2, Workshop
Musical styles and elements melodic, modal
Poems
In Danish
Digtene til de 3 satser er af den gamle japanske digter Bashō gendigtet af den danske digter Hans-Jørgen Nielsen: HAIKU – en introduktion og 150 gendigtninger
Tempelklokken
- Tempelklokken
- dør hen
- Blomsternes
- dufte
- Kimer videre
- Hans-Jørgen Nielsen
Havet formørkes
- Havet
- formørkes
- Mågens
- skrig
- Blir
- blege
- Hans-Jørgen Nielsen
Verden én farve
- Verden
- én farve
- Og vindens
- hvislen
- Det er
- vinter
- Hans-Jørgen Nielsen
In English
The text for the three movements are haiku poems by the old Japanese poet Bashō, rewritten to danish by Hans-Jørgen Nielsen: HAIKU – en introduktion og 150 gendigtninger (Haiku - an introduction and 150 rewritings)
The temple bell
- The temple bell dies away
- The scent of flowers in the evening
- Is still tolling the bell.
- R. H. Blyth
Reference [1]
The Sea
- Seas slowly darken
- and the wild duck's plaintive cry
- grows faintly white
- Unknown
The world one color
- The world one color,
- and the wind hissing
- it's winter
- Unknown
List of vocal music
- For at forfølge det håb... (1997)
- Utroligheds frø (choir) (2002)
- Menneskets tråde (mezzo soprano) (2002)
- Det døende Barn (choir) (1998)
- Mountain of Frigiliana (mezzo soprano and accordion) (2018)
- Three haiku (12-part choir) (1999-2000)
- Fordum var der fred på gaden (choir) (1905/2019)
- Fordum var der fred på gaden (modern diatonic arrangement - choir) (1905/2019)
