Songs and Haiku: For Female Voice and Piano

Two haiku (the first for piano alone---the only piece here to have been published before---the latter by Basho) bookend three love songs dedicated to Harvey's wife, Rosa. The grouping of the pieces into an eight-minute cycle was the composer's own idea, and it mixes Eastern and Western poets in a totally characteristic manner. Both Tagore and e. e. cummings are represented, poets who are featured in some of Harvey's finest works (Song Offerings and Forms of Emptiness, respectively), and a third song sets Tennyson's Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571541151
• ISBN13: 9780571541157
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 999 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 9.0" x 12.0"