Scarecrow Songs

In the Farther Field, a haiku, the first of four songs form Scarecrow Songs, was written by Sanin and translated by Peter Beilenson in Haiku Harvest published by Peter Pauper Press. The haiku as a poem consisting of seventeen syllables in three lines with an optional rhyme of the first and third lines. In the Farther Field, a pentatonic melody, is sung three times: first in unison, then as a two part canon and finally in four part canon with one voice singing the original melody another in , the third in retrograde and the last in retrograde inversion. The accompaniment can be performed with harp, Orff instruments or piano.