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| Minoru Miki Work list ('53~'75) GoTo'75~'89, GoTo'90 |
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Trinita Sinfonica (1953)
Instrumentation: 4-3-3-3, 4-3-4-1, 4 perc, 2 hp, pf, str Duration: 16' Prize: Second Prize at NHK Orchestra Work Competition Premiered by NHK Symphony Orchestra in 1954 Three Festal Ballads (1954) [Memories of the Fair, "Danjiri"at Night, A Puppet Show] Instrumentation: pf solo (Alt.version: 4 koto) Duration: 15' (4'45"+4'30"+5'00") Publisher: Zenon Music Publisher Osabai (1955) Instrumentation: fl,ob, cl, 2 bn, 2 hn, tpt, 2 tbn, 2 perc Duration: 14' Sinfonia Gamula (1957) Instrumentation: 5-5-5-5, 8-5-3-2, 10 perc, str Summer Poem (1958) [Sanobori, Urabon, Tanabata, Sassei] Instrumentation: pf solo (Alt.version: shaku, 3 20-koto, b-koto) Duration: 13' (3'00"+2'40"+3'55"+3'00") Publisher: Zen-on Music Symphony "Joya" (1960) Instrumentation: 3-2-3-3, 4-3-4-2, 5 perc, 2 pf, synth, str Duration: 22' Trois Ballades Enfantaines de Awa (1960) [Jeu de Cercle, Berceuse, Mariage de la Chatte] Instrumentation: mix-chor, pf Duration: 8'20" (2'20"+3'30"+2'20") Publisher: KAWA I Gakufu (now free) Shunrai (Thunder of Spring) (1960) Poem: Nanako Miki Voice: bar Instrumentation: pf Duration: 7' Publisher: Zenon Music Publisher Suite for Mixed Chorus "Chasing the Light" (1961) [The Glow of Fireflies, Fireworks, Stream of Light, The Ocean Awakes] Poem: Nanako Miki Mix-chor Duration: 12' (2'55"+1'50"+2'10"+4'00") Publisher: KAWAI Gakufu (now free) Mixed chorus suite based on melodies of the Sunda district (1961) [Song of Chintz, Let's Go Dancing, Lovesong of Java] Poem: Nanako Miki Mix-chor Duration: 11' (3'20"+3'20"+3'40") Publisher: Tokyo Ongakusha (now free) Old Songs of Indochina (1961) [Under the Hoa-dai Tree, Shower Comes Unexpectedly, Fishing, Farewell] Poem: Nanako Miki Mix-chor Duration: 10' (2'15"+1'35"+50"+3'30") Publisher: Tokyo Ongakusha (now free) Sonnet I (1962) Instrumentation: 3 shaku Publisher: Zen-on Music Ode to Oceanid (1962) Poem:Nanako Miki Mix-chor Instrumentation: pf Duration: 8' Publisher: KAWAI Gakufu (now free) Choral Poem in Awa (1962) [Taishime, Mugiuchi, Mochitsuki, Mizutori, Tatara] M-chor Duration: 16' (2'30"+3'00"+3'00"+3'40"+4'15") Publisher: Ongaku no Tomo Sha Kurudando Cantata for Japanese instruments and mixed chorus based on melodies of the Amami district (1963) [Kurudando and Ito, Barcarol, Dance of August] Voices: mix-chor, Instrumentation: fue, 3 shaku, 3 shami, b-koto, 3 perc (Alt.version: pf with a percussion) Duration: 15' (7'00"+3'45"+4'00") Publisher: Ongaku no Tomo Sha (now free) Requiem (1963) [Prelude, Ist movement, 2nd movement, 3rd movement, 4th movement, 5th movement] Poem: adapted from Polynesian folklore/supplementary text: Nanako Miki Voices: bar solo, m-chor(or mix-chor) Instrumentation: orch(1-1-2-1, 4-4-3-1, 3 perc,3-6 db) (Alt.version: 2 pf or 1pf 1org, or 1 pf) Duration: 34' (1'50"+7'00"+6'10"+8'00"+5'40"+7'00") Publisher: KAWAI Shuppan Husband the Hen - an operetta in one act (1963) Original story: Maupassant Libretto: Tetsuj Kono, Hiroshi Katsuki Voices: sop, ten, bar, m-chor, Instrumentation: orch(1-1-1-1 0-1-1 3perc,db) Alt,version: sop, ten, bar, 6 female singers, fue, shaku, b-tbn, vn, perc, pf Publisher: Ahn & Simrock, Munich (now free) To the Winter Sun (1964) Poem: Nanako Miki Voice: sop or ten(or f-chor), Instrumentation: pf Duration: 2' Publisher: Zenon Music Life's Boat Song (1965) Poem: Kiyomitsu Odagiri M-chor Duration: 6' Publisher: KAWAI Gakufu (now free) Wakamono wa Itsumo (1965) Poem: Kiyomitsu Odagiri M-chor(or mix-chor) Duration: 2' Publisher: KAWAI Gakufu (now free) Sextet for Wind Instruments and Piano (1965) [1st movement, 2nd movement, 3rd movement] Instrumentation: fl, ob, cl. bn. hn. pf Duration: 18' (7'15", 4'30", 7'29") Those Days (1966) Poem: Michizo Tachihara Voice: bar(or m-sop), Instrumentation: pf(or guit), (Alt.version: m-chor with pf) Publisher: Zen-on Music Paraphrase after Ancient Japanese Music (1996) [Prelude, Sohmon, Tanomai, Ruika, Kagai] Voice: sop vocalise Instrumentation: fue, 2 shaku, shami, biwa, 2 koto, b-koto, 2perc Duration: 28' (8'+5'+2'45"+4'30"+6'30) The Mole's Tale (1966) [A Greeting just after Waking up, To the Stars Faraway, The Pain under the Ground, In the Midst Of a Transient Peace, From the Darkness into Darkness] Poem: Kiyomitsu Odagiri M-chor Instrumentation: 2perc Duration: 25' (2'40"+5'30"+4'40"+4'10"+7'00") Publisher: Zen-on Music Figures for Four Groups (1967) [Aya, Iki, Kuse, Toh] Instrumentation: Aya=2koto+b-koto, Iki=2fue+2shaku, Kuse=2shami+biwa, Toh=2perc Duration:22' (5'30" each) Publisher: Zen-on Music Kikimimi - a musical drama for children (1967) Libretto: Asaya Fujita Voices: children's solos, chorus, Instrumentation: orchestra of school instruments (Alt,version : sop, mez, ten, bar, 2 female voices, vn, pf, 3 recorders by singers) Duration: 18' Tomurai no Uta (1967) Poem: Satoshi Akiham Voice: any voice Instrumentation: guit Duration: 3' Time for Marimba (1968) Insrtumentation: marimba solo Duration:10' Publisher: Ongaku no Tomo Sha Ballades for Winging (1968) Poem: Satoshi Akihama Voices: mix-chor, ten Instrumentation: 2 fue, 3 shaku, hichiriki, 3 shami, biwa, 3 koto, b-koto, 2 perc, Duration: 22' It Might as Well Be Stopped (1968) Poem: Rokusuke Ei Voices: children's voices Instrumentation: fl, tpt, tbn, vn, pf, db, drums Duration: 3' Song of the Wind (1969) Poem: Akira Mine Child-chor, Instruentation: pf (or 20-koto) Duration: 3' Publisher: Hoso Shuppan Kyokai Ballades for Koto Solo Vol, I, "Winter" (1969) [Little Overture, The Longing, A Winter Night, Lullaby for My Doll, The Coming of Spring] Instrumentation: Koto solo (13 strings) Duration: 16' (3'+2'30"+4'30"+3'30"+3'30") Publisher: Zen-on Music Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra (1969) [1st movement, 2nd movement (there are two ending versions)] Instrumentation: marimba solo, orch(3-3-3-2, 4-3-3-1, 4 perc, hp, str Duration: 23' (10'30"+12'00") Publisher: Norsk Musikforlag Jo no Kyoku - Prelude for Shakuhachi, Koto, Shamisen and Strings (1969) NB: the first Piece of "Eurasian Trilogy" Instrumentation: shaku, 20-koto, f-sha mi, str Duration: 16' Publisher: Zen-on Music Tennyo (1969) Instrumentation: 20-koto solo Duration: 16' Publisher: Zen-on Music Gaki (1970) Poem: Satoshi Akihama Mix-chor Duration: 10' Publisher: Ongaku no Tomo Sha (now free) Kokyo (1970) Instrumentation: shakuhachi solo Duration: 12' Publisher: Zen-on Music Convexity - Concerto for three groups of Sankyoku and a Japanese Drum (1970) Instrumentaion: fue, 2 shaku, 2 shami, biwa, 13-koto, 20-koto, b-koto, J-Drum Duration: 23' Marriage (1970) Poem: Ryuichi Tamura Voice: alt Instrumentation: sho, b-koto, 5 perc, str Duration: 2' Kieyuku Seika - for the closing ceremony of the Sapporo Olympic Games (1971) Poem: Tokiko Iwatani Mix-chor, Instrumentation: brass band Barbaric Glees (1971) [Sayonara wa Gomenda, Hitoribotchi no Blues, Yatei, Nen Nen Komoriuta, Motenu Onoko no Zareuta] M-chor Poem: (1)(4) Satoshi Akihama (2) Asaya Fujita (3)(5) Kiyomitsu Odagiri Duration:12' (2'10"+1'30"+1'45"+2'30"+3'15") Publisher: KAWAI Gakufu (now free) Sao no Kyoku (Venus in Spring) (1971) Instrumentation: 21-koto solo Duration: 9' Publisher: Zen-on Music Tastuta no Kyoku (Venus in Autumn) (1971) Instrumentation: 21-koto solo Duration: 9' Publisher: Zen-on Music Tanu Tanu Ballade (1971) Voices: child-chor, bas, Instrumentation: fue, hichiriki, 3 shaku, shami, biwa, 2 13-koto, 20-koto, b-koto, 3 perc Duration:24' Miyabi no Uta (1971) Instrumentation: shaku, b-koto Duration: 6' Publisher: Zen-on Music Hinaburi no Odori (1971) Instrumentation: shaku, b-koto Duration: 9' Warabeuta ni Yosete (1972) Instrumentation: 13-koto solo Duration: 4' Particpation I, II, III - Textbook on an ensemble of any Japanese instruments (1972) Instrumentation: duet(or trio) for Japanese instruments Duration: 3' each Ne, Ushi, Tora, U / Yok Kon Kon (1972) Poem: Hiroo Sakata Voice: any voice Instrumentation: Japanese instruments(or pf) Duration: 2' each Publisher: Hoso Shuppan Kyo kai Sohmon II (1972) Mix-chor(vocalise), Instrumentation: 21-koto Duration: 15' Ne-Tori - Ceremony for Opening (1973) Instrumentation: nohkan, 2 shaku, 2 shami, 2 biwa, 21-koto, 2 13-koto, b-koto, 2 perc Duration: 10'-15' Hakuyoh (1973) Instrumentation: vn, 21-koto Duration: 25'-28' Dances Concertantes No.1 - "Four Seasons" (1973) [Spring is Dancing, Whirling Water, Autumn and Harvest Dance, Flower of Wind, Epilogue] Instrumentation: fue 2 shaku, shami, biwa, 2 13-koto, b-koto, 2 perc Duration: 20'-25' (4'30"+2'45"+3'15"+5'10"+3'35") Poem in the Evening (1973) Instrumentation: shaku, 13-koto, shami Duration: 7' Publisher: Zen-on Music Participation IV, V, VI - Textbook on an ensemble of any Japanese instruments (1973) Instrumentation: duet(or trio) of Japanese instruments Duration: 3' each Hanako, Taro, Ha Ta Ha Ta - piano pieces for children (1973) Duration: 2' each Koto Futae (1973) [1st chapter, 2nd chapter, 3rd chapter] Instrumetation: 2 13-koto Duration: 11' (4'30"+2'50"+3'30") Publisher: Zen-on Music Koei (1974) Instrumentation: shaku solo, 13-koto, tsuzumi Duration:21' Ha no Kyoku (Koto Concerto No. 1) (1974) NB: the second piece of "Eurasian Trilogy" Instrumentation: 21-koto solo, orch (2-2-2-2, 4-3-2-1, 4 perc, str Duration :24' Honju (1974) Instrumentation: shami(thin-neck type) solo Duration: 9' Publisher: TA photo & sound office, Inc Aya II (1974) Instrumentation: 2 13-koto, b-koto Duration: 7' Muma no Shirabe [Boat Song, Begger's Song, Lullaby] (1974) Poem: Satoshi Akihama Instrumentation: song with 13-koto, db Duration: 10' (2'00"+1'20"+6'00") Matsu no Kyoku (1974) Poem: Sanetomo Minamoto Instrumentation: shaku, shami, 21-kto solo, 2 13-koto, b-koto, f-chor Duration: 16' Ki Do Ai Raku (1974) M-chor(or mix-chor), Instrumentation: biwa, shaku, 13-koto Duration: 20' Tsutsuji no Otome (1975) [Matsuri, Kaigoh, Yamaji, Ai, Komori-uta, Karasu, Umeki, Hakyoku, Chinkon] Poem:Yuichi Inagaki Mix-chor, narration Instrumentation: pf, Duration: 35' (3'00"+3'00"+2'30"+4'00"+4'20"+1'50"+1'00"+1'50"+3'20")
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