Score [ePDF]
Basho : [eScore] / Richard David Hames.
Work Details
Year: 1981
Instrumentation: Tenor (also antique cymbals, Tibetan rattle drum, claves), piano (also brass, bamboo and glass chimes, 3 gamelan gongs, Indian bells, celesta, prepared piano), 2 percussionists, flute (and piccolo), oboe, harp.
Contents note: I. As the temple bell fades -- II. A fragrance of orchids -- III. The water-dripping rite.
Set to haiku by Matsuo Basho.
Amplification of the piano is required.
The three sets are discrete cycles in their own right and may be performed separately, or as a complete cycle.
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