Camellia
Maria Collings

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Additional Information

Camellia is written for solo soprano.

It is one minute long.

It sets a haiku written by the seventeenth century Japanese poet, Matsuo Bashõ (c.1694):

Falling upon earth

pure water spills from the cup

of the camellia

 

Camellia is influenced by the haiku structure in using a pentatonic scale as a starting point. 

It is inspired by the beauty of nature, the fleeting image of time and the tradition of folk song in the Ralph Vaughan Williams archive, such as, Green mossy banks, The dew is on the grass and Down by some river.  

 

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