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The Wind Dance

This composition gives modern expression to a spirit at least as ancient as the instruments on which it is played - the spirit of the Shinto Festival. Satto is a technical term referring to a medium-fast movement in dance compositions of the ancient court, but it was the impressionist sound of the term, rather than its literal
meaning, that attracted the composer to this title.

Satto appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Ensemble Nipponia - Kabuki and other Traditional Music  (Listen)
The Wind Dance This composition gives modern expression to a spirit at least as ancient as the instruments on which it is played - the spirit of the Shinto Festival. Satto is a technical term referring to a medium-fast movement in dance compositions of the ancient court, but it was the impressionist sound of the term, rather than its literal meaning, that attracted the composer to this title.
Flutist from the East Volume 1  (Listen)
The second movement uses Shinobue to bring about the native feeling of festivals and dances. Percussion instruments were also used in each movement, for a religious effect in the first movement and an ethnic effect in the second movement, to efficiently express the composer's Japanese image.
Works of Katsutoshi Nagasawa Volume 3  (Listen)