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A net of fireflies : song cycle for voice and piano

Title
A net of fireflies : song cycle for voice and piano / Vincent Persichetti ; drawings by Bernard Kohn.
Author
Persichetti, Vincent, 1915-1987.
Publication
Bryn Mawr, Pa. : Elkan-Vogel, c1972.

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Description
1 score (23 p.) : ill.; 31 cm.
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Note
  • For medium voice and piano.
  • Premiered by Carolyn Reyer, mezzo-soprano, at Alice Tully Hall, New York, N.Y., May 12, 1971.
  • Composed in 1971.
  • Duration: ca. 19:00.
  • Japanese Haiku from A net of fireflies / translated by Harold Stewart -- Rutland, Vt. : C. E. Tuttle, 1960.
Contents
Waking at an inn / Sōseki -- The pavilion on the lake / Rimpū -- With sharpened senses / Bashō -- Four magpies / Hō-ō -- A whiteness / Shikō -- Noon / Buson -- The carp / Raizan -- The faun / Issa -- Hypothesis / Zen paradox -- Summer grasses / Bashō -- Paper wings / Hō-ō -- Its netted trail / Hō-ō --Beneath the net / Buson-Sōgyo -- Firefly / Bashō -- After the death of her small son / Chiyo -- Dewdrop / Issa -- The black cat's face / Hō-ō.
Call Number
JNG 73-99
LCCN
73211179
OCLC
  • 758989
  • NYPG744707514-C
Author
Persichetti, Vincent, 1915-1987.
Title
A net of fireflies : song cycle for voice and piano / Vincent Persichetti ; drawings by Bernard Kohn.
Imprint
Bryn Mawr, Pa. : Elkan-Vogel, c1972.
Publisher No.
461-00005 Elkan-Vogel
Research Call Number
JNG 73-99
AMC M1621.4 P466 N4
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