Haiku Settings, for soprano and flute, Performing score

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.

CONTENIDO:

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)