for violin and piano
Performed by David Beck and Rita Kimpton on 22 October 2004
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This duet for violin and piano is based on my song sequence taking various haikus by Matsuo Basho. The scales used are Western equivalents to various modes in the Japanese system, especially the "Okinawa scale"
Here is the original song on poems by Basho (sung in a sort of attempted phonetic Japanese by the composer!)
Download Basho haiku sequenceStream Basho haiku sequenceFor the first Haiku (Kare eda ni/ Karasu no tomarikeri/ aki no kure ) please also seethis discussion on Haikus (with translation)
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The complete score of the original Basho haikus setting can be obtained directly from the composer as a pdf file:
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