Haiku, Book 15 (Graham Patterson)

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• (Posted 2025-09-07)  CPDL #86676:     

Editor: Graham Patterson (submitted 2025-09-07).   Score information: A4, 88 pages, 692 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: translations by the composer.

General Information

Title: Haiku, Book 15
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: 56 settings of Bashō's haiku:

1. Ibuki Mountain, p.1 2. Hurry up and flower! p.3 3. Staying indoors, p.7 4. What a hideout! p.9 5. A clam ripped from its shell, p.11 6. Sandals of Saigyo, p.12 7. I am weary, p.13 8. So much holiness, p.15 9. Sago palm trees, p.17 10 Look sad moon, p.19 11 Inkstone, p.20 12 These people, p.21 13 Wintry garden, p.22 14 A folding screen, p.23 15 Searching for mushrooms, p.24 16 Let's run around, p.25 17 Rabbit fur, p.27 18 Buddha statue, p.28 19 Bowl bell ringers, p.29

20 Leaving for White Mountain, p.30 21 The country under snow, p.31 22 This wooden bowl, p.32 23 Sweetfish from the trap, p.33 24 Who can this personage be? p.34 25 The Festival of the Otters, p.35 26 Red pepper, p.36 27 Greengrocer on his rounds, p.37 28 The pines on the bank, p.38 29 Tilling the soil, p.39 30 The truest way, p.41 31 Butterfly wings, p.42 32 Chunag Tzu's dream, p.43 33 All these village folk, p.44 34 Well matched, p.45 35 In the heat haze, p.47 36 Spring is leaving, p.48 37 Mountain cherries, p.49 38 Bush warbler, p.51

39 At daybreak, p.53 40 Oranges, p.54 41 Not to evening or morning, p.55 42 Snake skin, p.56 43 Hunting out snakes, p.57 44 Eating snakes, p.59 45 Chinquapin tree, p.61 46 Fireflies in the trees, p.63 47 River breezes, p.65 48 In my poor hut, p.66 49 O silk tree, p.67 50 Festival of the Dead, p.69 51 Acolytes, p.71 52 Moon viewing people, p.73 53 Seven Komachi, p.74 54 Underneath my pillow, p.75 55 To hear the wild geese, p.76 56 Shrimps and crickets, p.77

Original text and translations

See individual haikus for texts and translations.