Name: Oliver Knussen: O Hototogisu!
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ISBN: 9780571541119

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Oliver Knussen: O Hototogisu! - Full Score

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Arrangement: Orchestra (ORCH)
Edition Type: Full Score
Publisher: Faber Music
Catalogue Number: 0571541119
Pages: 36
Date Published: 11th Jun 2019

This exquisite ‘fragment of a Japonisme’ – premiered in 2017 and conceived as a kind of double concerto for soprano, flute and ensemble of 23 players – proved to be Oliver Knussen’s final work. The 8-minute piece couches seven exquisite haiku settings in richly evocative music which incorporates signals from Japanese theatre (particularly Kabuki). It concerns the Hototogisu (or Lesser Cuckoo), a bird widely invoked in Japanese haiku poetry of the 17th-19th centuries, where the poet listens for its arrival from the mountains both as a harbinger of summer and a voice from the land of the dead. O Hototogisu! is presented here as a typeset score with two facsimile pages from the composer’s manuscript.

ISBN: 9780571541119 (0571541119)

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