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This book is a collection of folk songs and children's songs inherited in the Lake Biwa district, which takes one sixth of entire Shiga Prefecture.
One of the important subject of the composer is to preserve traditional Japanese music as lively as possible, and this album is dedicated to it. He tried to complete these songs with his own creative ideas, while respecting the original mentality and mood.

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This book is a collection of folk songs and children's songs inherited in the Lake Biwa district, which takes one sixth of entire Shiga Prefecture.
One of the important subject of the composer is to preserve traditional Japanese music as lively as possible, and this album is dedicated to it. He tried to complete these songs with his own creative ideas, while respecting the original mentality and mood.

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This book is a collection of folk songs and children's songs inherited in the Lake Biwa district, which takes one sixth of entire Shiga Prefecture.
One of the important subject of the composer is to preserve traditional Japanese music as lively as possible, and this album is dedicated to it. He tried to complete these songs with his own creative ideas, while respecting the original mentality and mood.

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The Japanese Requiem, using Japanese ancient Shinto requiem, elegies and parting songs of the poet Kakinomotono Hitomaro who represents the anthology Manyo-syu, and several Latin requiems as texts. Composed and first performed as a ceremonial music for victims of the Great Hanshin/Awaji Earthquake in 1995.

[Hideki CHIHARA]
Born in 1957. Graduated Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
Awarded and honorable mention : Japan Music Competition, Premio Citta di Trieste (Italy), Carl Maria von Weber Preis (Germany), Guido d'Arezzo (Italy), and so on.
His music, written in varieties up to now, is mainly based on Japanese classical literatures, traditional art forms and Asian thought or religions.

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The Japanese Requiem, using Japanese ancient Shinto requiem, elegies and parting songs of the poet Kakinomotono Hitomaro who represents the anthology Manyo-syu, and several Latin requiems as texts. Composed and first performed as a ceremonial music for victims of the Great Hanshin/Awaji Earthquake in 1995.

[Hideki CHIHARA]
Born in 1957. Graduated Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
Awarded and honorable mention : Japan Music Competition, Premio Citta di Trieste (Italy), Carl Maria von Weber Preis (Germany), Guido d'Arezzo (Italy), and so on.
His music, written in varieties up to now, is mainly based on Japanese classical literatures, traditional art forms and Asian thought or religions.

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Japanese folksong of Fukushima Prefecture. One of the most famous Japanese choral arrangement in the world.

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Japanese folksong of Fukushima Prefecture. One of the most famous Japanese choral arrangement in the world.

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This systematic catalogue of Mozart's works, subdivided by genre, gathers together the latest findings of Mozart scholarship. It provides scholars and musicians with information in convenient tabular form on
*numbers in the various editions of Kochel
*keys
*scoring
*dates
*Old Mozart Edition
*New Mozart Edition (NMA) and separate prints from NMA
*index of Kochel numbers
*other concise notes on nicknames, genesis, musical relations to other works, etc.

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Following the great success of the first set of Mozart Masses and Vesper settings, Carus is offering a set of all his additional sacred works as study scores in an attractive case. The editions are based on the latest musicological developments and they offer musicians and music lovers alike a treasure of Mozart's sacred music.

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The choral setting for men's voices a cappella, poems by Syuji Terayama, music by Takatomi Nobunaga, one of the most popular composer in Japan now.

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This choral music has been created for those in the higher grades of primary school, students in middle school, and college. Each of the work is a four-part chorus and it is intended that it be sung by ten to twenty-five performers.
The performaers can enjoy variations of ryhthm-patterns, while singing, it offers an excellent training opportunity to music class.

Atsuro KONO
Born in Tokyo.
Graduatad from the composition depertment, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

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2 small sacred works from "Orff-Schulwerk".

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