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| Rokudan - koto by Yatsuhashi Kengyo |
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'Rokudan' is an abbreviation for 'Rokudan no Shirabe', and it is one of
Yatsuhashi Kengyo's famous pieces. It was originally a soukyoku, a kind of
chamber music with the
koto playing the leading part, but nowadys, the part of the koto is
more widely known than the original. The music is made from six colums
(thus 'Roku'-six-, 'dan'-colums-), and there are exactly fifty-two beats
in each colum, except for the first row, which has four beats more. Each
colums first begin slowly, and than gets faster and faster, but slows down
to the original tempo in the end. Along with the
Midare, it is one of the most popular soukyoku. |
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