Nanae
七重
| [Genres] | Moderne Musik |
| [Komponiert] | Nishimura Akira - Koto |
Nanae spielt auf den folgenden Alben
| Album | Künstler | |
| Art of the Koto - Volume III |
Koto : Yoshimura Nanae | |
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Nanae, by Akira Nishimura, freely explores the historical roots of the flat zither, outside the restraints of the Japanese koto tradition.
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Koto : Yoshimura Nanae |
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The composer states that the title of this work came to him when he struck upon an unusual tuning of the Koto for this piece. Of the twenty-one strings, Two groups of seven strings (strings 4 to 10 and strings 11 to 17) and tuned in parallel to produce identical pitches. In other words, there are seven duplicated pitches in the tuning. Hence the title literally "seven-fold". By having these duplicated pitches the impression can be created of listening to a duet, although the instrumentalist is of course playing alone. The composer's intention is to make use of this effect in various ways throughout the piece, and he often uses the parallel strings indirectly in order to obtain the effect of sympathetic vibration. The work demands enormous energy to perform: the difficult closing section with its long fast-moving passages stretches the performer's endurance to the limit.
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