Michio Miyagi (traditional japanese, koto)

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Michio Miyagi (traditional japanese, koto)

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Michio Miyagi was one of the great koto players of the twentieth century and a leader in a movement to absorb elements of Western music into Japanese music using traditional instruments. His father was named Kunijiro Wakabe, but Miyagi was given a prominent family surname, Suga, when he was an infant. He progressively lost his vision and was totally blind by the time he was seven. Having already shown musical talent, it was natural for him to study koto, as there is a tradition that the most famous players of the instrument are blind.

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He wrote his first composition, Mizu no hentai (Metamorphosis of Water), in 1909. He succeeded to the professional title of Kengyo in 1912.

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In 1920, he and his friend Seifu Yoshida began the New Japanese Music Movement aimed at adapting European musical elements into compositions for traditional Japanese instruments. He gave important concerts of his compositions beginning in 1919. His primary instrument was the zoku-so, or 13-string koto and in 1921, he invented a 17-string koto (jushichigen) and used it in his work Dance of Falling Leaves. The instrument has become a success. He also made some less practical instruments, including an 80-string koto and a large bowed instrument called the kokyu. One of his innovations was the introduction of the Western notion of chamber music into the Japanese tradition. The first such work was his septet called Kairo-cho (1923) using Japanese instruments. He introduced the Western form of theme and variations into Japanese music with his Variations on Sakura in 1923. His Etenraku hensokyoku is essentially a concerto for koto and symphony orchestra.





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