Posts Tagged ‘Music’
May 9, 2010
Posted in Japan, Music | Tagged Classical Guitar, Concierto de Aranjuez, Danza del Molinero, El Sombrero de Tres Picos, Enryaku-ji Temple, Guitar, Guitar Music, Invocación y Danza, Japan, Joaquín Rodrigo, Kaori Muraji, Manuel de Falla, Music, Roland Dyens, Soichi Muraji, Soshunfu, Tango en Skai, 早春譜, 村治 佳織 | 16 Comments »
March 19, 2010
Posted in Anime | Tagged Anime, Anime Music, Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell, Gundam, Happy Birthday, Macross, Music, Yoko Kanno | 6 Comments »
January 31, 2010
Can Sound Influence Mind and Body?
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Posted in Culture, Japan, Science & Technology | Tagged Brain, Breast Augmentation, Can Sound Influence Mind and Body?, Conditioning, How Sound Can Affect Brain and Body, Japan, Music, Psychology, Science, Sound, Technology | 4 Comments »
July 26, 2009
“When I was a kid, I once said, ‘I’m blind,’ and my parents went quiet. So I quickly added, ‘But I’m all right because I play the piano,’ to try and console them. It’s my true feeling,” Tsujii said.
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Posted in Japan, Music | Tagged Blind Pianist, 辻井伸行, Japan, Music, Nobuyuki Tsujii, Nobuyuki Tsujii Biography, Nobuyuki Tsujii Chopin, Nobuyuki Tsujii Rachmaninov, Piano, Van Cliburn International Piano Competition | 2 Comments »
June 30, 2009
Nagauta (長唄, “long song”) is a kind of traditional Japanese music developed during Edo period. “Kikuzukushi” (Chrysanthemum dance) is often used to teach the basics of Japanese traditional dance.
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Posted in Culture, Japan | Tagged Chrysanthemum dance, 長唄, Japan, Japanese Music, Kikuzukushi, Music, Nagauta, National Theater of Japan, Traditional Japanese Music | Leave a Comment »
March 29, 2009
Joe Hisaishi’s music was often featured in Ghibli films, but he also composed music for many live-action movies. This is a selection of some of his best soundtracks.
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Posted in Anime, Japan, Music | Tagged Anime, Anime Music, 藤澤 守, Fujisawa Mamoru, Japan, Joe Hisaishi, Joe Hisaishi: Greatest Hits, Music, Studio Ghibli, 久石 譲 | 9 Comments »
March 7, 2009
Posted in Japan, Music | Tagged Culture, 高橋竹山, Japan, Japanese Music, Japanese Traditional Music, Life, Music, Shamisen, Shamisen Music, Takahashi Chikuzan, Tsugaru-jamisen, 津軽三味線 | 1 Comment »
February 26, 2009
Posted in Culture, Japan | Tagged Culture, Immortal Beloved, Japan, Life, Ludwig van Beethoven, Music, Ode to Joy, Ode to Joy: 5000 People Sing in Tokyo, Symphony No. 9 Beethoven | Leave a Comment »
January 2, 2009
Kōhaku Uta Gassen (紅白歌合戦, Kōhaku Uta Gassen), more commonly known as simply Kōhaku, is an annual music show on the New Year’s Eve. Literally “Red and White Song Battle,” the program divides the most popular music artists of the year into competing teams of red and white. The “red” team or akagumi (赤組, 紅組, akagumi?) is composed of all female artists (or groups with female vocals), while the “white” team or shirogumi (白組, shirogumi?) is all male (or groups with male vocals). Read the rest of this entry ?
Posted in Japan, Music | Tagged Anime, Ghibli Music, Japan, Jero, Joe Hisaishi, Kiyoshi Hikawa, Kōhaku Uta Gassen 2008, Music, Studio Ghibli | 4 Comments »
