Toshio Hosokawa (b. 1955)

From the Darkness

for mixed chorus Edition Schott

mixed choir a cappella

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Details
For
mixed choir a cappella
Product Type
Choir score
Author / Composer
Toshio Hosokawa
Product number
1863311
Languages
japanese
Extent
19 Pages
Description

Izumi Shikibu was a female poet who lived in the 10th century. She was a beautiful court poet and caused the scandal of her day: she oft en fell in love and wrote several excellent love songs. She expressed her intense feelings of love in the form of short poems. Her songs have lyrics motivated by an intense longing for male sexuality, while also expressing a Buddhist longing for liberation from worldly desires. Th e harmony is created by the deposition by the canon of melodic fragments. It grad...