To the Victims of Cain
カインの犠牲者達のために
[対象楽器] | Matsudaira Yoriaki - 三弦 - 1980 |
カインの犠牲者達のために は下記のアルバムに収録されています
アルバム | アーティスト | |
New Spirits of Sangen |
三弦 : 西潟昭子 | |
Nishigata commissioned Yoriaki Matsudaira to compose the piece in 1980, this work comprises three sections which draw on the music of Okinawa, Vietnam and the Korean Peninsula, all of which have tradition of plucked instruments. The title derives from the history of bloody civil wars that these regions share. Each section concludes with a refrain in the form of the question '''Who are you?" posed in the respective language on the region, followed by an explosive sound. Cain refuses to respond. In the first section, fragments of the Okinawa scale it can be heard in staggered intervals from the left than the right speaker. Gradually as the lapse between the fragments grows, the sound shifts from the right to left speaker. In the second section, the shamisen is played with a bow in imitation of the reed pipe of the mountainous regions of Vietnam. It is replaced by a regular bachi in the solo section. The sound of quarrelling is sometimes interrupted by percussive - like feedback in the third section. (Yoriaki Matsudaira) |