by Bai Juyi (772 - 846)
Translation © by David Hinton (b. 1954)
Sitting Idle at the North Window
Language: English  after the Chinese (中文)
The window empty, two thickets of bamboo [ ... ]
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Authorship:
- by David Hinton (b. 1954), copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Bai Juyi (772 - 846) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Kenneth Hesketh (b. 1968), "Sitting Idle at the North Window", first performed 2007 [voice and piano], from Shimmerwords and Idle Songs, no. 4, confirmed with a concert programme booklet [ sung text verified 1 time]
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