Re: Other instruments/harmonization

From: James Jennings (jennings@megaseattle.com)
Date: Sun Nov 09 2003 - 11:02:53 PST


>Is anyone aware of any "successful" attempts to play shakuhachi
>literature on other instruments, or to harmonize shakuhachi
>literature?

On the CD, "Train to Okinawa" by Riley Lee, the track called "Requiem
Six Twenty" is really the honkyoku piece "Tamuke" with cello
accompaniment. The cello part is pretty simple -- at the beginning
it's not much more than a drone which hints at the chords -- but I
thought it was pretty effective.

James

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