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Haru no Umi (春の海, "The Sea in Spring") is a Shin Nihon Ongaku ('New Japanese Music') piece for koto and shakuhachi composed in 1929 by Michio Miyagi.It is Miyagi's best known piece and one of the most famous for the koto and shakuhachi instruments.
Koto concert at Himejijo kangetsukai in 2009 Michiyo Yagi playing a 21-string koto. The influence of Western pop music has made the koto less prominent in Japan, although it is still developing as an instrument. The 17-string bass koto (jūshichi-gen) has become more prominent over the years since its development by Michio Miyagi. There are ...
Koko ni Ita Koto (ここにいたこと, "We Were Here") is the debut studio album (third overall) by the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. [1] [2] "Koko ni Ita Koto" was released in Japan on June 8, 2011, by King Records. There are three versions available: Limited Edition (catalog number KIZC-90117/8), Regular Edition (KIZC-117/8), and Theater ...
It was originally a sōkyoku (Japanese: 箏曲, lit. 'koto music'), a kind of chamber music with the koto playing the leading part, but nowadays the part of the koto is more widely known than the original. The music is made from six columns, hence the name, and there are exactly fifty-two beats in each column, except for the first row, which ...
The melody arranged by Ongaku Torishirabe-gakari was included in Collection of Japanese Koto Music issued in 1888, for beginning koto students in the Tokyo Academy of Music. [4] Often, It is the first piece that koto beginners learn because they can play any phrase by picking closer strings without skipping to distant strings. [2]
A woman playing a koto, depicted in 1878 by Settei Hasegawa.. Danmono (Japanese: 段物) is a traditional Japanese style of instrumental music for the koto.The few pieces of its repertoire were mostly composed and developed in the seventeenth century, and all follow a strict form of composition.
The video opens with Sorimachi reacting to clips showing the song effective on children from Japan, Brazil, the U.S., the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. Sorimachi then video calls with the head of the Japan Acoustic Lab [ ja ] , who, similarly to Shimura, theorizes that the high frequency in the intro's rising and falling guitar riff is able ...
Okinawan folk music differs from mainland Japanese folk music in several ways. Okinawan folk music is often accompanied by the sanshin , whereas in mainland Japan the shamisen accompanies instead. Other Okinawan instruments include the sanba (which produce a clicking sound similar to that of castanets ), taiko and a sharp finger whistle called ...