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Moyura - Complete

もゆらの五ツ

[Genre]Modern
[Composed]Yoshimatsu Takashi - Koto - 1990

Moyura - Complete appears on the following albums

Album Artist
Play ButtonNanae Koto : Yoshimura Nanae
"Moyura" is an archaic word which means "sound", for examples "Tamayura" means "Tama-Moyura" I sounds like a jewel. This work is composed by the five pieces: key (theme), fast
(Allegro), ream (intermezzo), slow (Adagio), and dance. There are five scenes which have such a sound-creak; a, faint hope that a man could have, despair like a dry dream, transparent resignation, and a far anxiety; and then their fragments touch trees and strum on the strings. Or they all can be described in one, birth to death. In the pause of each chapter, the bell is rung, and after finishing five bells all is over.

From spring to fait in 1990, this work was composed for Nanae Yoshimura's 20-stringed koto. It's a small tapestry between the first symphony composed in spring and the second one being written now.

At first. I thought of the work consisting of seven pieces which title was "septet" (means the work Nanae plays), but gave up in would not be as a witty joke as Nishimura's. After all, I feel it gets only a ghost-secession by being possessed somewhat strange mode. I leave the rest to Nanae's musicality.