# O Hototogisu!: Full Orchestra Score

- **Brand:** Alfred Music
- **Price:** $41.99
- **Catalog:** alfred
- **Retailer:** alfred
- **Product URL:** https://go.cosimo.shop/r/gAAAAABqVL8OWZFZwg90B7Uwg9weeKcpL4-tsdKVHCXJtZymSkJixRvWuSD6toiTXtaKvPk4ct8rO5lY8P56rDCBvQocnJLE_InP5Ae5j8mpGEVfHw-RyLMuumIGYintcvXD_cx7XxlhrSLiRpUtml1yIwJLqcL_sX-cw4DwDRuPHQPb8nJL-23p6yPk9bSdOBPNW469hg1_BIn6thyZ0-bdRi56PLXA8-44Xwb5xvQalTy9qF8MMZ9jArSmCs9qsk60BElWjhA-kpB_3861akexpndU24FZ5-jeSe0fdCzy-3qiuwOmhAmjSUy_vcmxg5aRe7s1gnuhvLzmVj1vAUxm4tST10tPUXlEGKrwYYCj39_jBMuH2zH4rBjYZBK-J9-BYhBMl_wD19M9GCTMCqaBvsTRBgXSTvhYIQbaEmFbTk66wZSdOkY=
- **GTIN:** 9780571541119

## Summary

Full orchestra score for 'O Hototogisu!' by Oliver Knussen, a fragment of a Japonisme for soprano, flute, and large ensemble.

## Description

This exquisite "fragment of a Japonisme"---premiered in 2017 and conceived as a kind of double concerto for soprano, flute, and ensemble of 23 players--- O Hototogisu! has proven to be Oliver Knussen's final work. The eight-minute piece couches seven exquisite haiku settings in richly evocative music, which incorporates signals from Japanese theater (particularly Kabuki). It concerns the Hototogisu (or Lesser Cuckoo), a bird widely invoked in Japanese haiku poetry of the 17th to 19th centuries, in which the poet listens for its arrival from the mountains both as a harbinger of summer and a voice from the land of the dead. Composed for soprano, flute, and full orchestra.

## Categories

- **Categories:** Shipped

## Enrichment

- **Type:** sheet music
- **Type Synonyms:** musical score, orchestra score
- **Tags:** printed music, classical music, full score
- **Category Path:** Media > Sheet Music
- **Compatible instrument:** Flute
- **Canonical Brand:** Alfred Music

## Images

- ![Image 1](https://cdn.octogen.ai/9b2a64a810fa62ecdf8db63b242cdf34/12cb7079de04b96db81e1461c9d4ab7d.png)

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