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This piece proceeds fast with a sense of speed. The poem is included in the poet's "A Child's Garden of Verses." This collection of poems written for children has been loved by many people in the English-speaking world. This piece modulates from G major, through E major and H major, to G major like the colors of a rainbow, representing the rainbow of harmony. The poet wishes to keep the awe to nature fostered in his childhood, the pure feeling, now when he is an adult and even in his old age. We might think of expressing the music continuing to live in my heart.
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We may interpret the poem to be dedicated to a dead lover or to the muse in the mind of the poet. Each text has traditional phonological style and has been composed into songs or choral works by many composers because the poems in themselves have musical elements. Four of the five chosen poems are the famous 19th century English ones, and the other is a modern American one.
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He selected five poems and set them to music with the aim of transforming "the glamor of sounds," which cannot be sent enough by translation, into music by the use of the original language. At the start of composing, he asked the members to suggest poems to be composed, among which poems inspired him the most. The composer composed this choral collection to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of Mitsubishi Corporation Choir.