{"id":37,"date":"2011-06-21T20:12:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T20:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2021-04-24T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T19:16:00","slug":"the-fishing-rod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\/blog\/the-fishing-rod\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fishing Rod"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most recent addition to my ongoing song cycle Fisherman Songs<\/em> is The Fishing Rod<\/em>. This song has three points of conscience influences. The following 6th-century Chinese poem by Shen Yu\u00ebh provides the text:<\/p>\n

Not only does my “cassia boat” drift “easily and free,”
\nBut verdant banks are also winding in and out.
\nMy light line stirs the tender water plants;
\nThe muffled oars arouse a solitary duck.
\nI tap the gunwales, heedless that the sun is setting;
\nTill my dying day I’ll make this my delight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was very excited when I stumbled upon this poem as I spent hours reading translated poetry by Shen in the low greenish lit stacks of Stony Brook University. I was in fact looking for another poem by the same author but this poem is perfect. I was looking to compose a short song \u00a0(3:00) whose subject was the beauty one finds while fishing.<\/p>\n

Coincidently, just after I found this poem I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art and saw this Chinese painting by Wu Zhen painted some 750 years later titled The Fisherman<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

I meditated on this painting and poem as a tandem and a third source of inspiration came to me, “The Fisherman’s Song” from Stravinsky’s Opera Le Rossignol<\/em>:<\/p>\n

[embedyt] https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nn9ltp8cB_0[\/embedyt]<\/p>\n

What Stravinsky’s song and mine have in common in addition to a fairly static presentation are the first three intervals (or four notes) of the melody: m3 – m2 – m3. Originally, I was using a motive from an older chamber piece of mine, Plexus<\/em>, \u00a0and cycling the notes of this four-note motive (C#-E-D#-F#) by reordering them and similar to the opening of the Stravinsky melody. But then I chose to alter my version somewhat to become more of a variation of the Stravinsky including using part of the tail of his melody. \u00a0What differs is how the melodic lines relate to the harmony.\u00a0 Listen to baritone Charles Coleman accompanied by Francisco Miranda read The Fishing Rod.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is the score for the entire song:<\/p>\n

The Fishing Rod<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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