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Three Shokushi Seasons for flute and violin
RSN:
72450
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Composition Date:
2012
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Revision Date:
N/A
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Duration:
00:09:00
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Programme Notes
Cataloguing Information
Call Number
MI 8213 J321thr
Genre
Mixed Duos, Woodwind / Bowed String
Material Type
Print-music
Acquisition Date
2017-04-26
Library Collection Publisher / Label
Unpublished, printed by CMC / Inédit, imprimé par le CMC
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Additional Information
i. Autumn ii. Winter iii. Spring Commissioned by: mmm...
Master Location
Toronto
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Physical Description
Found 2 record(s)
Available Actions
Extent of Item
2 Parts
Score
Instrumentation
Found 2 record(s)
Available Actions
Set No.
Category
Instrument
Number
52589
Woodwinds
Flute
1
52589
Strings, bowed
Violin
1
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Premiere
27 March 2012, Suginami Public Hall, Tokyo, Japan mmm... (Reiko Manabe, flute; Shungo Mise, violin)
See Also
72202, Three Shokushi seasons, AR3309, Daryl Jamieson, 00:10:46
These three short pieces, which run together without any break, are inspired by the poetry of Princess Shokushi (which can also be pronounced Shikishi), a poet, priestess, and nun in the late Heian and early Kamakura periods in mediaeval Japan. Her poems are filled with surprising turns of phrase and mood, shifting from light to dark in an instant, undercutting scenes of beauty with a sense of impending death and decay.My piece is an attempt to capture Shokushi’s interplay of light and dark, especially as found in her poetry depicting the changing seasons. In each of the three seasonal sections, one instrument’s music (flute, violin, and flute respectively) was composed following a strict pitch-matrix based on a numerological analysis of one of Shokushi’s seasonal poems, while the other instrument’s line was composed as a free commentary on and accompaniment to the more restricted, poetry-based material. In an additional nod to the work’s mediaeval Japanese inspiration, the form of the piece is based on the tripartite jo-ha-kyu structure of Noh drama. Those three sections are in this piece each associated with a season, the seasons in question being Autumn, Winter, and Spring, with Summer being left out at my personal whim. The poems, in the original Japanese and in Hiroaki Sato’s excellent English translations, are: ????????????????????????? Since a wind over the rushes told me that autumn came, things I think about have become unusual at dusk ????????????????????????? A winter night: the moon, clear beyond a leafless tree, clouds suddenly as the first shower comes ???????????????????????? Deep in the mountains, the pine door isn’t aware of spring – on it, intermittently dripping, beads of melting snow
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