Haiku, Book 3 (Graham Patterson)

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•  Posted on 2024-05-09(Posted 2024-05-09)  CPDL #80590:     

Editor: Graham Patterson (submitted 2024-05-09).   Score information: A4, 119 pages, 1.07 MB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Haiku, Book 3
Composer: Graham Patterson
Lyricist: Matsuo Bashō^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: unpublished
Description: The third volume, composed in 2023, comprising 52 settings for choir of the complete haiku by Matsuo Bashō

Original text and translations

English text

We reverence the Buddha, the perfectly Enlightened One, the Shower of the Way.
We reverence the Dharma, the Teaching of the Buddha, which leads from darkness to Light.
We reverence the Saṅgha, the fellowship of the Buddha's disciples, that inspires and guides.

We reverence the Buddha, and aspire to follow Him. The Buddha was born as we are born.
What the Buddha overcame, we too can overcome, what the Buddha at­tained, we too can attain.
We reverence the Dharma, and aspire to follow it With body, speech and mind until the end.
The Truth in all its aspects, the Path in all its stages, We aspire to study, practise, realize.

We reverence the Saṅgha, and aspire to follow it: the fellowship of those who tread the Way.
As, one by one, we make our own commitment,
An everwid'ning circle, the Sangha grows.

Rev'rencing the Buddha, we offer flowers:
flow'rs that today are fresh and sweetly blooming,
flow'rs that tomorrow are faded and fallen,
our bodies too, like flow'rs, will pass away.

Rev'rencing the Buddha, we offer candles:
To Him, who is the Light, we offer Light.
From His greater lamp a lesser lamp we light within us:
the lamp of Bodhi shining within our hearts.

We offer incense: incense whose fragrance pervades the air.
The fragrance of the perfect life, sweeter than incense,
Spreads in all directions in all directions throughout the world, throughout the world, throughout the world. We reverence the Buddha, the perfectly Enlightened One, the Shower of the Way. We reverence the Dharma, the Teaching of the Buddha, which leads from darkness to Light.

We reverence the Saṅgha, the fellowship of di­sciples, that inspires and guides.
Ah We reverence the Dharma, and aspire to follow it
With body, speech and mind until the end.
The Truth in all its aspects, the Path in all its stages,
We aspire to study, practise, realize.

We reverence the Saṅgha, and aspire to follow it:
the fellowship of those who tread the Way.
As, one by As one, we make our own comone by one we mitment,
An everwid'ning circle, the Sangha grows.