Cicada Songs
4-Part - Sheet Music

SATB choir, clarinet and marimba (SATB choir)

SKU: AN.AMP-5017

Composed by Charles Hoag. Edited by Simon Carrington. Octavo. Alliance Music Publications #AMP 5017. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-5017).

Hoag.

Cicadas have had good press ever since antiquity. I have found texts about them on the Internet, in Japanese haikus, in Homer, and in Goethe, who in turn translated his poem from Anacreon, a Greek poet from the sixth century B.C. In addition, I have a lovely poem by KU's own Elizabeth Schultz, the aforementioned verse of my own, and a phrase spoken in our backyard by my wife, Mary Tuven. I have arranged them in the following order for purely musical reasons,

 Dog Day Harvest Fly (Charles Hoag) Like Cicadas (after Homer) In That harsh Tune (Charles Hoag) Four Haikus (Ransetsu, Basho, Otokumi, and Issa) Happy art the Cicadas (after Xenarchos of Rhodes) An die Zikade (translated by Johann Wolfgang Goethe from Anacreon, 6th century B.C.) Kyoto Summer/Kansas Summer (after Elizabeth Schultz, University of Kansas Emerita) with changes by Charles Hoag Seara, Seara (after Mary Tuven) 

I am deeply indebted to all the poets and also to Heinrich Stammler for his beautiful translation of the Goethe printed among the other texts below.

 Charles Hoag Professor of Music Theory and CompositionThe University of Kansas