Category: ETHNIC MUSIC
Composer: Jackson Hill
Arranger: NA
Publisher: Hinshaw Music
Edition: HMC2005
Voicing: SATB
Setting: A Cappella
Reviewer:
Peter Schleif
Winona Senior High School 2005
R&R Chair Ethnic Music
This is actually a new edition of a piece published in 1982, and is a setting of a ninth century Japanese poet. Based on a pentatonic chant and without much forward movement, the piece provides for a rather ethereal atmosphere. The text, reflecting on the change of seasons, is placed in the middle of a tone painting, giving the work a sense of suspended time. This would be an excellent choice for a high school or older choir, looking to work on sustained tones.