|
||||||
|
Listen
|
||||||
Profoundly influenced by French music, especially thet of Debussy, Matsudaïra has allied western musical techniques with those of Japanese folk and art music. |
||||||
| The first volume
of the Nambu folk-songs dates from 1928/30 and the second from
1938. Kokinsh (1939/40) takes its title from an anthology of
"waka" poems from c. 905. Unlike the Nambu Folk-songs, the music
of Kokinshû is original, though maked by gagaku, the traditional
music of japanese court. In all these songs one should notice
the melodic and rhythmic inventiveness and the originality of
the harmony which, though clearly related to the neoclassical
language current in Europe at the time, offers, from this point
of view, many surprises to the ear. |
||||||
|
Jeremy Drake
|
||||||
|
Copyright
Yumi Nara 2003 all rights reserved.
|
