Tanaka, Shuichi : ETHNOLOGUE No.6 “Biographie de l'assassin”(Poem by KIBE Yohani)
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Instrumentation:Chamber Music
Genre:Various works
Total Playing Time:8 min 00 sec
Additional Notes:構成:声楽1、ピアノ1、コントラバス1 詩:木部与巴仁
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'Ethno-logue' is a title meaning something akin to 'ethnic tales.' In this work, I attempted to set to melody the 'Cao Mo Chapter,' an excerpt from 'Suite: Biographies of Assassins,' a poetic work by Mr. Kibe Yohojin, which was inspired by Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian: Biographies of Assassins. Records of the Grand Historian contains the biographies of five assassins: Cao Mo, Zhuan Zhu, Yu Rang, Nie Zheng, and Jing Ke. The phrase 'A scholar dies for one who knows him' is a saying by Yu Rang of Jin, which I adopted as a symbol of assassins. I plan to set the entire 'Suite: Biographies of Assassins' to music in the future.