Composing for Japanese Instruments
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286 Pages

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57 b/w, 197 line illus.

Series: Eastman Studies in Music

Series Vol. Number: 57

Imprint: University of Rochester Press

Composing for Japanese Instruments

by Minoru Miki

Translated by Marty Regan

Edited by Philip Flavin

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A practical but scholarly guide to Japanese instruments by one of the country's leading composers.

The unique sounds of the biwa, shamisen, and other traditional instruments from Japan are heard more and more often in works for the concert hall and opera house. Composing for Japanese Instruments is a practical orchestration and instrumentation manual with contextual and relevant historical information for composers who wish to learn how to compose for traditional Japanese instruments. Widely regarded as the authoritative text on the subject in Japan and China, it contains hundreds of musical examples, diagrams, photographs, and fingering charts. Many of the musical examples can be heard on a companion website. The book also contains valuable appendices, one of works author Minoru Miki composed using Japanese traditional instruments, and one of works by other composers -- including Toru Takemitsu and Henry Cowell -- using these instruments.

Minoru Miki was a composer of international renown, recognized in Japan as a pioneer in writing for Japanese traditional instruments. Marty Regan is associate professor of music at Texas A&M University. Philip Flavin is associate professor at the Osaka University of Economicsand Law and adjunct senior research associate of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
Wind Instruments
String Instruments (Lutes)
String Instruments (Zithers)
Percussion Instruments
Afterword
Appendix I: Works for Japanese Instruments by Minoru Miki
Appendix II: Contemporary Works for Traditional Japanese Instruments by Composers Other than Minoru Miki, 1981-2015
Notes
Glossary
Index

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Title Details

286 Pages

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57 b/w, 197 line illus.

Series: Eastman Studies in Music

Series Vol. Number: 57

Imprint: University of Rochester Press