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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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]
Musicians and dancer, Muromachi period Traditional Japanese music is the folk or traditional music of Japan. Japan's Ministry of Education classifies hōgaku (邦楽, lit. ' Japanese music ') as a category separate from other traditional forms of music, such as gagaku (court music) or shōmyō (Buddhist chanting), but most ethnomusicologists view hōgaku, in a broad sense, as the form from ...
Katsutoshi Nagasawa (長沢 勝俊, Nagasawa Katsutoshi, August 2, 1923 – January 10, 2008) [1] was a Japanese composer of classical music with a modern approach. Nagasawa composed for traditional Japanese musical instruments (e.g., Shakuhachi, Koto, Shamisen). Nagasawa was born in 1923 in Tokyo and graduated from Nihon University. He was one ...
Her solo koto CD Shizuku was produced by Zorn and released on the Tzadik label in 1999. In 2001 she recorded "Yural" with her koto ensemble Paulownia Crush for the East Works label. Under the auspices of the Japan Foundation, Yagi toured Russia with this ensemble in the fall of 2004.
Kimio Eto (衛藤公雄, Etō Kimio) (surname Etō, born 28 September 1924 in Ōita – died 24 December 2012 [1]) was a blind Japanese musician who played the koto.He began musical training at the age of eight with the renowned master Michio Miyagi.