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Kawasaki, Etsuo : "A Strange Tale of the South Island"

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Music ID : 77579
Instrumentation:Chamber Music 
Genre:Various works
Total Playing Time:13 min 30 sec

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Author : Kawasaki, Etsuo

Last Updated: December 13, 2021
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

Conscious of creating a "Japanese Piano Quartet," I composed a six-movement suite depicting scenes and emotional landscapes of "Southern Islands."

  • 1 - Introduction ~ U-no-ji
    Following a brief opening, a small set of variations based on "U-no-ji," a children's song from the Kyushu region, unfolds.
  • 2 - Clouds
    A scene of faintly dark clouds, evoking melancholy, drifting by in a minimalist style.
  • 3 - Scherzo
    A Japanese-style "humor" (kaigyaku) in the manner of Hindemith. Bittersweet memories.
  • 4 - Longing
    A fleeting moment of yearning arising within the humid air.
  • 5 - Island Fugue
    A short fugue based on a theme in the Ryukyu scale. Unlike typical structures, this fugue serves as a "prelude" to the following "Wind from the South."
  • 6 - Wind from the South
    A scene of the perpetually azure sea and the all-encompassing sky, along with their emotional landscapes, encompassing a history of sorrow.

(Based on a piece previously composed for a creative dance in Okinawa.)

Writer: Kawasaki, Etsuo

Movements (6)

Prelude - Unoji

Total Performance Time: 3 min 05 sec 

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Spirited Clouds

Total Performance Time: 2 min 00 sec 

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Scherzo

Total Performance Time: 1 min 40 sec 

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Alonging

Total Performance Time: 1 min 40 sec 

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Fugue on an island

Total Performance Time: 2 min 40 sec 

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Wind from the South

Total Performance Time: 2 min 40 sec 

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