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This is a Modern piece . This piece was composed for koto by Yoshimatsu Takashi in 1998 .

Within Dreams, Without Dreams Op. 74 - Dream About Water appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Subaru - Nanae Yoshimura plays Takashi Yoshimatsu  (Listen)		Yoshimura Nanae
This is intended to harmonize West and East around the 20-stringed koto, and is made up of notes from five dreams of water, a tree, fire, a cloud and the sky. 1, Dream about Water: adagio. A figure by the koto is overlapped by melodies from the clarinet, violin and violoncello. 2. Dream about a Tree: an intermezzo-like scherzo in dry tones, pizzicato. 3. Dream about a Fire: allegro. Three instruments appear one over another on the koto ostinato. 4. Dream about a Cloud: andante. The koto solo sings quietly on the long tone of the strings. 5. Dream about the Sky: finale. All the instruments float in atmospheric consonance. This work was written for Nanae Yoshimura and Wien Solisten Trio (clarinet, violin and violoncello), comminssioned by Wako Takakusa (Bright One Inc.), from winter in 1997 through spring in 1998 as Op.74.