Haiku, Book 16 (Graham Patterson)

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• (Posted 2025-09-07)  CPDL #86677:     

Editor: Graham Patterson (submitted 2025-09-07).   Score information: A4, 87 pages, 655 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Translations by the composer

General Information

Title: Haiku, Book 16
Composer: Graham Patterson
Lyricist: Matsuo Bashō^{create page}
Number of voices: 4+vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: 53 settings of Bashō's haiku:

1. Chrysanthemum salad, p.1 2. After a frost, p.2 3. My grass door, p.3 4. Backpack of colour, p.4 5. Snow is falling, p.5 6. Ninety-nine thousand, p.7 7. Paulownia tree, p.9 8. No time for sleep, p.10 9. Pilgrim, p.11 10 Mumps, p.13 11 Beginning poem, p.14 12 Things just happen, p.15 13 Mosquito net from Ōmi, p.17 14 The reed under the eaves, p.19 15 A pillow, p.20 16 Wearing frost, p.21 17 Winter's unknown, p.22 18 Beat the pounding block, p.23

19 End of the year, p.24 20 Moon and flowers, p.25 21 Nesting white storks, p.27 22 Wild carnations, p.28 23 Mountain ridge, p.29 24 To understand my poems, p.36 25 Cape Irago, p.37 26 Cold tonight, p.39 27 Even more than in a dream, p.40 28 How interesting, p.41 29 Flowers or mistletoe, p.42 30 The heart of Akokuso, p.43 31 What is the name? p.45 32 Lodging with the flowers, p.46 33 Potatoes planted, p.47 34 Taking off one layer, p.49 35 Morning glory flowers, p.50 36 Watching you depart

37 Still here, p.52 38 The edict of the 51 articles, p.53 39 Carnations on the brazier, p.55 40 The door is made of grass, p.57 41 Wandering, wandering, p.58 42 The monks with their bowls, p.59 43 Street entertainers, p.63 44 Between the snowy mountains, p.65 45 Even on gentle slopes, p.67 46 For half a day, p.68 47 Year to forget party, p.69 48 Pictures for the pilgrims, p.71 49 How precious, p.72 50 Little grebe, p.73 51 Village in the mountains, p.75 52 The plover ascending, p.77 53 Plums and fresh veg, p.78

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