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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 ...
"Taiyō to Sabaku no Bara"/"Subeki Koto" is the forty-first single by the Japanese band Tokio. It was the first single released by Tokio in eleven months, having been released on August 19, 2009. It was the first single released by Tokio in eleven months, having been released on August 19, 2009.
Yatsuhashi Kengyō (八橋 検校; 1614–1685) was a Japanese musician and composer from Kyoto. The name kengyō is an honorary title given to highly skilled blind musicians. Yatsuhashi, who was born and died in Japan, was originally a player of the shamisen, but later learned the koto from a musician of the Japanese court. While the ...
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]
In November 2015, Dario Marianelli was hired to score the film's music. [5] [6] The score had a cultural significance to feudal Japan, and to incorporate it, Marianelli used ethnic Japanese instruments such as shakuhachi, taiko and koto in addition to the shamisen (a Japanese stringed instrument, which is an integral part of the film's plot).
A music video for "Sazanami wa Modoranai", served the center position by Ririka Itō and Runa Hayashi, was released on March 12, 2023. Yoshiharu Seri directed the music video, showing the members' relationship with the concept of a circle. [14] "Kokoro ni mo Nai Koto" music video came on March 17. Teresa Ikeda served as the center position.
Hirajōshi scale, or hira-choshi (Japanese: 平調子, Hepburn: hirachōshi, chōshi = tuning and hira = even, level, tranquil, standard or regular) is a tuning scale adapted from shamisen music by Yatsuhashi Kengyō for tuning of the koto. [1] "The hirajoshi, kumoijoshi, and kokinjoshi 'scales' are Western derivations of the koto tunings of ...
Japanese folk songs (min'yō) can be grouped and classified in many ways but it is often convenient to think of five main categories: fisherman's work song, farmer's work song; lullaby; religious songs (such as sato kagura, a form of Shintoist music) songs used for gatherings such as weddings, funerals, and festivals (matsuri, especially Obon)