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#1 2010-03-25 07:46:32

philthefluter
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Shakuhachi and piano

Does anyone know any good pieces or arrangements for shakuhachi and piano? Also details of where to find the sheet music.


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#2 2010-03-25 07:53:26

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Re: Shakuhachi and piano

There are piano arrangements of all the Fukuda Rando stuff, they are not particularly good but they exist. You can get that at Mejiro.


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#3 2010-03-25 10:08:36

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Re: Shakuhachi and piano

Tairaku wrote:

There are piano arrangements of all the Fukuda Rando stuff, they are not particularly good but they exist. You can get that at Mejiro.

last i checked the fukuda rando complete shakuhachi kinko notation was available at mejiro(plus cd with karaoke piano), but not the piano scores. i had to buy them directly from the kokusai shakuhachi kenshukan. i absolutely LOVE them. they may not be great classical compositions, but they have that beautiful old-timey enka feel. and people seem to enjoy listening to them.

a very cool piece for piano, shakuhachi and violin which i have performed is keiko ueda's "i was a crystal of snow sometime before" you can buy score from her website, as well as see a video- www.keikoueda.com

"haru no umi" arranged for piano instead of koto is fairly readily found.... works nicely.


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#4 2010-03-25 11:20:48

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Re: Shakuhachi and piano

hi Phil,
Keiko has cool stuff, she also arranges on request. (if you have a certain piece & you want to add piano to it).

Another of my favorites are from Haruno Kira (niece of Takemisu). I got some stuff from her album "Breath"

http://www.geocities.jp/breathnotes/english_0.html

I did lots of piano & shakuhachi duets that I arranged...but I just have melody & chords only (simple that way ;-).

Are you gong to work with clasical piano player or jazz piano player?

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#5 2010-03-25 11:31:16

geni
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Re: Shakuhachi and piano

Also check this out

A Faure Flute Album  flute & piano (Music Sales)
A Satie Flute Album  flute & piano (Music Sales)
A Ravel Album  flute & piano (Music Sales)

editions by Trevor Wye http://www.trevorwye.com/my%20books%20by%20subject.html

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#6 2010-03-25 11:45:58

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Re: Shakuhachi and piano

Thanks for asking about this Phil. I've been on the hunt for easy shakuhachi and intermediate piano music/duets that my piano playing friend and I might try to work on together so the leads in this thread a going to be at least a starting point for me.  Oh yeah, one other slight obstacle for me has been that I don't read western music and my musical friend does not read shakuhachi notation (I guess we could always trade seats and try to learn each other's music, eh?  but it comes down to available time to learn all the cool stuff there is to learn!)

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#7 2010-03-26 06:06:07

Tairaku 太楽
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Re: Shakuhachi and piano

Hi Glenn, I meant the piano arrangements are a bit florid and weird. They are not good transcriptions of the koto parts, which would be nicer. The Rando compositions themselves are pretty nice.


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#8 2010-03-26 06:44:22

Glenn Swann
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Re: Shakuhachi and piano

Tairaku wrote:

Hi Glenn, I meant the piano arrangements are a bit florid and weird. They are not good transcriptions of the koto parts, which would be nicer. The Rando compositions themselves are pretty nice.

yes, florid is a good word. i like florid and weird(i still listen to 80's gothic music for that matter).
but were they originally koto, transcribed to piano, or vice-versa? people (lfor example yokoyama) play them with koto, but all the old fukuda rando recordings (on THAT website, anyway) are with piano, and i read here and there how fukuda shocked people by mixing western and trad japan instruments.... i don't know, but kinda thought tsukikusa, gekkou roteki and the rest were originally intended for piano/shakuhachi...? if you or anyone reading knows for sure, i'd love to know which the originals were.


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#9 2010-03-26 06:58:42

Glenn Swann
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Re: Shakuhachi and piano

Geni-

checked the haruno kira link- those samples are really interesting. did you figure out songs from cd, or get scores?


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#10 2010-03-26 08:52:02

Tairaku 太楽
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Re: Shakuhachi and piano

Glenn Swann wrote:

Tairaku wrote:

Hi Glenn, I meant the piano arrangements are a bit florid and weird. They are not good transcriptions of the koto parts, which would be nicer. The Rando compositions themselves are pretty nice.

yes, florid is a good word. i like florid and weird(i still listen to 80's gothic music for that matter).
but were they originally koto, transcribed to piano, or vice-versa? people (lfor example yokoyama) play them with koto, but all the old fukuda rando recordings (on THAT website, anyway) are with piano, and i read here and there how fukuda shocked people by mixing western and trad japan instruments.... i don't know, but kinda thought tsukikusa, gekkou roteki and the rest were originally intended for piano/shakuhachi...? if you or anyone reading knows for sure, i'd love to know which the originals were.

Don't really know......I assumed the koto parts Yokoyama used were the originals because they sound so much better. But if Rando recorded with piano perhaps that's the original. Maybe he wrote the piano parts himself. I assumed they were later arrangements. Could be totally wrong though.


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#11 2010-03-26 11:49:33

geni
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Re: Shakuhachi and piano

I wrotte to her & she send me scores. Very nice person.

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#12 2010-03-30 13:18:29

philthefluter
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Re: Shakuhachi and piano

Many thanks for the replies. We may do improvisation or pieces. Thanks for reminding me of Keiko Ueda and Haruno Kira. I must also look through all my flute music. Will keep you updated.


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