In The Farther Field (SSAA)
No. 1 from Scarecrow Songs
Joan Whittemore
In The Farther Field (SSAA)
No. 1 from Scarecrow Songs
Joan Whittemore
Series: Choral Music Experience
Instrumentation: SSAA
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes (New York)
Catalogue No: M051474066
ISMN: 9790051474066
Shop Product Code: 261023D
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In the Farther Field, a haiku, the first of four songs form Scarecrow Songs, was written by Sanin and translated by Peter Beilenson in Haiku Harvest published by Peter Pauper Press. The haiku as a poem consisting of seventeen syllables in three lines with an optional rhyme of the first and third lines. In the Farther Field, a pentatonic melody, is sung three times: first in unison, then as a two part canon and finally in four part canon with one voice singing the original melody another in , the third in retrograde and the last in retrograde inversion. The accompaniment can be performed with harp, Orff instruments or piano.