| 作曲者 | Joan Whittemore |
| タイトル | Scarecrow Songs, No. 1 In the Farther Field |
| サブタイトル | No. 1 In the Farther Field |
| 出版社 | Boosey & Hawkes・ブージー＆ホークス |
| シリーズ名 | Choral Music Experience: Beginning Repertoire |
| 楽器編成 | treble voices (SSAA) and harp (piano), optional woodwinds or Orff instruments |
| 品番 | 9790051474066 |
| 出版番号 | BHI 47406 |
| ISMN | 979-0051474066 |
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.