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Haru no Kyoku

春の曲

[Genres]Sokyoku
[Stil]Meiji Shinkyoku
[Schule]Ikuta Ryû - 生田
[Komponiert]Yoshizawa Kengyō II - Koto

Geschichte (Tsuge Gen'ichi):

Haru no kyoku ('Ode to Spring') is one of a set of pieces originally composed for voice and koto called Kokin no kumi which consists of five pieces: four odes to the seasons, and Chidori no kyoku ('Song of Plovers'). All the six waka poems sung in this piece are taken from the Books One and Two (Songs of Spring) of the Kokin waka shu.

The long instrumental interlude tegoto, inserted between the fourth and fifth waka, was not originally composed by Yoshizawa, but added later by Matsuzaka Shun'ei (1854-1920) of Kyoto.

Gedicht (Übersetzt von Tsuge Gen'ichi)

If the bush warbler
Did not sing
From the valleys,
Who would know
The coming of spring?

Though deep in the mountains
Snow still covers the pines,
In the capital
People gather young shoots
From the fields!

If the cherry blossom were not known
To our world,
Perhaps our hearts would be
Peaceful at spring time.

On horseback
We go to the old capital
At Nara;
See how the blossoms are scattered
Whiter and deeper than snow!

Will only passing strangers
Glance back and see
The wisteria in bloom,
Billowing in waves
On my cottage?

Sing, warbler, sing!
Never cease your song!
For spring
Comes only
Once a year.
(maebiki)

Uguisu no
tani yori izuru
koe nakuba
haru kuru koto wo
tare ka shiramashi

Miyama ni wa
matsu no uki dani
kienaku ni
miyako wa nobe no
wakana tsumikeri

Yononaka ni
taete sakura no
nakariseba
haru no kokoro wa
nodokekaramashi

Koma nabete
iza miniyukan
furusato wa
yuki to nomi koso
hana wa chirurame

(tegoto)

Waga yado ni
sakeru fujinami
tachikaeri
sugigate ni nomi
kito no miruran

Koe taezu
nakeya uguisu
hitotose ni
futatabi to dani
kubeki haru ka wa

Haru no Kyoku spielt auf den folgenden Alben

Album Künstler
Play ButtonFascination of the Koto 4 Stimme : Yonekawa Toshiko
Koto : Yonekawa Toshiko
Stimme : Satō Chikaki
Koto : Satō Chikaki
Composed by Yosizawa kengyo II (1801/08-1872). He composed numerous koto pieces using the tanka poems included in the Kokin waka syuu. This particular piece represents the progression from early spring to the end of spring. The composer invented the tuning specific to these pieces by adding semi-tone pregressions to an anhemitonic (without any half tone steps) tuning of the gagaku koto.
Play ButtonFujii Kunie Sokyoku Jiuta No Sekai 5

Fukami Satomi - Sokyoku Jiuta Shu - 2 Koto : Yonekawa Toshiko II
Stimme : Fukami Satomi
Koto : Fukami Satomi
Play ButtonJapanese Music for Koto and Shakuhachi - 2 Koto : Nakamura Sōyō
Koto : Hoshida Miyoshi

Koto Music of Japan, The Koto : Hagiwara Seigin
Koto : Mineuchi Ginshō
Shakuhachi : Kikusui Kofū
Music of Spring (Haru-no-kyoku) composed by Yoshizawa Kengyo is one of the important works of the pseudo-classical movement which took place in the nineteenth century. This movement aimed to overcome the modern sentimentality and the concurrent subordination of koto music to shamisen music. The music of the four seasons, including Haru-no-kyoku, are the culmination of this movement.

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Stimme : Nakanoshima Keiko
Koto : Shinagawa Shōzō

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Stimme : Imai Tsutomu
Koto : Imai Tsutomu

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Stimme : Yuize Masae
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Koto : Sakai Utayu

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Koto : Fujii Kunie
Stimme : Satō Chikaki
Koto : Satō Chikaki

Sōkyoku - Haru no Kyoku / Usu no Koe Koto : Nakanoshima Kin'ichi
Shakuhachi : Nōtomi Judō I
Stimme : Nakanoshima Keiko
Koto : Shinagawa Shōzō

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Stimme : Yuize Shin'ichi
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