Joan Whittemore
In The Farther Field
No. 1 In the Farther Field
Joan Whittemore
In The Farther Field
No. 1 In the Farther Field
- Instrumentation Childrens' Choir, Harp and Instrument
- Edition Choral Score
- Composer Joan Whittemore
- Publisher Boosey & Hawkes
- Order no. BHI47406
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Description:
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.
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