Monday, July 25, 2005

New shakuhachi pieces

I have added several new pieces to the shakuhachi scores page.

There is a new solo piece in western notation, called 'No Answers', and a second solo piece written in Kinko-ryu notation. This is handwritten and scanned in as a JPG file.

I have added three violin-shakuhachi duets that I wrote to play with a friend at work who is also a student. 'Water Mirror has the hardest violin part, and 'Pear Tree Branch' the most difficult shakuhachi part, I think.

Last is a piece which I wrote and performed in church recently - I sang the voice part and played the shakuhachi part, accompanied by a keyboard koto sound. This is written in the pseudo-Japanese style of my chamber opera 'Komachi'.