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In 1985, Koto released "Visitors". In an interview with Maiola, he confirmed it was his favourite Koto song. [3] The track contains a sample from Michael Jackson's 1984 hit "Thriller". The following year, he released another single, titled "Jabdah". Fueled by a music video, the song became a big hit, charting in Germany, the Netherlands and ...
The koto (箏 or 琴) is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument, and the national instrument of Japan. It is derived from the Chinese zheng and se, and similar to the Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum and ajaeng, the Vietnamese đàn tranh, the Sundanese kacapi and the Kazakh jetigen. [1]
'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 has four beats more.
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. When he was eleven, he composed his first work.
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.
A year later, CloZee released the track "Koto", under the label Otodayo Records, after writing it in just two days. Shortly following its release, the track was posted to the YouTube channel "Mr. Suicide Sheep", a prominent channel dedicated to posting various electronic music, and quickly began racking up several million views.
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]
She studied koto under masters in the United States and Japan including Mde. Kayoko Wakita in Los Angeles and composer and virtuoso Shinichi Yuize in Tokyo. Obata has a music master's degree from San Diego State University and her daishihan (grand master) degree from Seiha Conservatory of Japanese Music. She plays koto, bass koto and shamisen.