Name: Nelson, Jalalu-Kalvert: Love Songs of Yosano Akiko
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Nelson, Jalalu-Kalvert: Love Songs of Yosano Akiko

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Arrangement: for three sopranos and ensemble
Edition Type: score
Publisher: Composers Edition
Catalogue Number: ce-jkn1lsya1
Pages: 60
Date Published: 22nd Jan 2021

This work uses the poetry of the late Nineteenth Century poet, Yosano Akiko. As a woman, Yosano Akiko was very liberal for in which the time that she lived. For instance, she took both men and women lovers and also translated the Great Japanese novel "The Tale of Genji" into modern Japanese. The day before it was to go to press there was a great earthquake in Tokyo and the press was destroyed. She bravely set about retranslating it again.

These poems that I have set express intimate feelings and impressions from nature - essentially feelings of love, longing and desire. They are presented in the five line Haiku system of poetry. In these brief five lines she expresses passion and desire. The three voices share the lines, they sometimes sing as one voice, or express a particular feeling in three different ways.

This work is conceived as a kind of ritual as in the Kabuki style of performing. Where the musicians are off to the side of the stage and the singer-performers perform in the center. There is a conductor and they are seating like the musicians. The musicians enter the stage silently first, the tuning has to take place off stage as in Japanese Noh theater. Then the three singers enter the stage and move to their places one by one. They are wearing specially design costumes/kimonos for this work. They also play percussion instruments, the first singer bongos, the second singer wood block, and the third claves.

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