This evocative work employs a number of sonic and stylistic devices from Japanese traditional music: pentatonic harmony, vocal slides, portamentos and ornamentation derived from Buddhist chant and ancient Japanese court music, as well as textures that define a sense of stasis and suspended time. “Alone beside the river of birds near the stream's upland source I wait and watch beside a bridge of stones...”. Performance Time: Approx. 8:20

Publisher: Hal Leonard
Series: King's Singer's Choral
Voicing: SATBBB a cappella
Pages: 24
Format: SATBBB a cappella
Credits: Jackson Hill
Composer(s): Jackson Hill
Author(s): Hitomaro