| Title |
小雄鹿 plaintive belling |
| Composer |
Daryl Jamieson |
| Year |
2013 |
| Instrument/s |
13-string koto (with voice) |
| Commission |
commissioned by Nobutaka Yoshizawa |
| First Performance (date, performers, venue) |
2013-05-19 Tokyo National Museum, Kujōkan, Tokyo Nobutaka Yoshizawa |
| Contact for Sheets |
https://davinci-edition.com |
| CD, Digital Audio |
recorded by Yoshizawa on Enrou Records, ENRU-001 |
| Contact Info |
http://daryljamieson.com |
| Notes |
In 2012 and 2013, I wrote two pieces based around my favourite poems from the most famous collection of Japanese poetry, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (One hundred poets, one poem each). Each of the pieces was based on seven poems. In my piano suite mountain / cherry / blossoms, I wrote seven short character pieces, each relating to the mood of a single poem. In this piece for solo koto, plaintive belling, the seven motivic ideas are layered over one another, and appear in increasingly dense waves of material as the piece progresses. The title is taken from the excellent recent translation of the Hyakunin Isshu by Peter McMillan: ‘belling’ here refers to the sound of a lonely stag calling for a hind. In traditional Japanese poetry, this is a symbol of autumnal loneliness. |
