Koto
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Track 4 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3. Music for Koto from Japan, from Saydisc album 'Kurokami', performed by Rié Yanagisawa (2'21")
Main features: koto, minor pentatonic, use of dynamics, use of silence.
This music from Japan is played on the koto, a large zither. It is based on a poem written by Kobayashi Yoshio, a Japanese poet. The Track Explorer has three learning tracks focusing on descriptions of the phrases and use of pauses.
Official classification: Listening, Changes in Volume, Silence, Key Stage 3, Pentatonic Scales, Japan, Far East, Koto, Track Explorer, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Saydisc Records
Picutre of traditional japanese stringed instrument. For an example, listen to Track 4 Aki No Shirabe (Autumn Tune)
Official classification: Image, Koto, Curriculum support
The 'now and next' functions in the Live Sequencer tool allow students to create their own arrangement of the koto melody from Saydisc Listen To This KS3, track 4 Aki No Shirabe (Autumn Tune). Students also type in their own descriptions of each phrase so they can easily identify each one and demonstrate use of musical language. They can then trigger the phrases live to play in any chosen order. Perhaps this could be used to provide music for a dance or similar performance.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Changes in Volume, Silence, Phrasing, Melody, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Pentatonic Scales, Japan, Koto, Curriculum support, Live Sequencer, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
A Japanese man plays a koto, a plucked 13 string instrument with moveable bridges.
Keywords:
Koto, plucked strings, Japan, Japanese, folk, world music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml2IULGmlj8
Official classification: Video, Japan, Koto, Curriculum support, Japanese
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