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This is a Modern piece . This piece was composed for shakuhachi by Neptune, John Kaizan in 1982 .

Dance for the ONE in Six appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Dance for the One in Six  (Listen)	Neptune, John Kaizan
The Japanese title, Horaku, literally means "entertainment for the gods"-sacred entertainment. I thought "Dance for the [Universal] One" would be a nice translation, and the title became Dance for the ONE in Six, since the piece is in 6/4 meter. This is an interesting meter to work with because it can be divided so many ways.