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This is a Modern piece from the Sawai school . This piece was composed for shakuhachi by Sawai Tadao in 1972 .

Akebono no Uta appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Song of Daybreak  (Listen)	Huebner, Bruce
Akebono no Uta "Song or Daybreak" was composed in 1972 by the greatest post-war virtuoso of the koto, Tadao Sawai (1937-1997), for his brother who was a promising shakuhachi player about to begin his career. Saddened by the early death of his brother, Mr. Sawai shelved the piece leading to its long absence from the standard repertoire. The composer had the following to say about Akebono no Uta: "This work is programmatic in many respects. While the shakuhachi sings to the beauty of the dawn, the sound of the two koto evolves around the emerging new day. Birds chirp, clouds pan lazily and the sun glitters. A warm. sweet world unfolds as a dream is revealed. Although the work appears to be a trio, the two koto are unified into one part, thus forming a duet between shakuhachi and koto"(translated by Bruce Huebner.)