Biwa

Anyone know where I can find traditional biwa music to download? I can find
tons of shamisen and other stringed instruments but no biwa..

tia

Dennis


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Some time ago, I had the opportunity to listen to the well-known Romance of the Heike by a blind japanese woman playing biwa (a CD). Maybe the search would be successful under Heiki Monogatari
Franois

> Message du 13/04/10 06:31
> De : "Dennis Sheridan"
> A : samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com
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> Objet : [samuraihistory] Biwa
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>
> Anyone know where I can find traditional biwa music to download? I can find
> tons of shamisen and other stringed instruments but no biwa..
>
> tia
>
> Dennis
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Thanks, Francois. I'm familiar with the title having seen it when I was
looking for biwa previously.. It's available on CD for way too much money,
but can't seem to find it for download. (Except for some rip-off sites
that say they have it until they get your money and then suddenly they
don't.) YouTube only has a few minutes of the performance..

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Francois BOUTRY
<BOUTRYFRANCOIS@...>wrote:

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>
> Some time ago, I had the opportunity to listen to the well-known Romance of
> the Heike by a blind japanese woman playing biwa (a CD). Maybe the search
> would be successful under Heiki Monogatari
> Franois
>
> > Message du 13/04/10 06:31
> > De : "Dennis Sheridan"
> > A : samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com
> > Copie à :
> > Objet : [samuraihistory] Biwa
>
> >
> >
> > Anyone know where I can find traditional biwa music to download? I can
> find
> > tons of shamisen and other stringed instruments but no biwa..
> >
> > tia
> >
> > Dennis
>
>
>

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I don't know about downloading, but I got some CDs by searching Amazon.com under "biwa" in the "music" section. I ripped some of the selections into my computer.

Nina




-----Original Message-----
From: Francois BOUTRY <BOUTRYFRANCOIS@...>
To: samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, Apr 13, 2010 5:06 am
Subject: re: [samuraihistory] Biwa




Some time ago, I had the opportunity to listen to the well-known Romance of the Heike by a blind japanese woman playing biwa (a CD). Maybe the search would be successful under Heiki Monogatari
Franois

> Message du 13/04/10 06:31
> De : "Dennis Sheridan"
> A : samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com
> Copie à :
> Objet : [samuraihistory] Biwa
>
>
> Anyone know where I can find traditional biwa music to download? I can find
> tons of shamisen and other stringed instruments but no biwa..
>
> tia
>
> Dennis
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>

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Try searching for Ugetsu-monogatari and see if the soundtrack isn't
out there...

Tom Helm
toryu@...
"Moriamur, et in media arma ruamus"
- Vergil

On Apr 14, 2010, at 6:03 AM, nohit@... wrote:

>
> I don't know about downloading, but I got some CDs by searching
> Amazon.com under "biwa" in the "music" section. I ripped some of the
> selections into my computer.
>
> Nina
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francois BOUTRY <BOUTRYFRANCOIS@...>
> To: samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tue, Apr 13, 2010 5:06 am
> Subject: re: [samuraihistory] Biwa
>
> Some time ago, I had the opportunity to listen to the well-known
> Romance of the Heike by a blind japanese woman playing biwa (a CD).
> Maybe the search would be successful under Heiki Monogatari
> Franois
>
> > Message du 13/04/10 06:31
> > De : "Dennis Sheridan"
> > A : samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com
> > Copie � :
> > Objet : [samuraihistory] Biwa
> >
> >
> > Anyone know where I can find traditional biwa music to download? I
> can find
> > tons of shamisen and other stringed instruments but no biwa..
> >
> > tia
> >
> > Dennis
> >
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> >
> >
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One of my most favorite films.. although I haven't purchased the new
Criterion yet.. A quick scan hasn't shown anything but I'll take a more
careful look later.. I really wouldn't mind ordering the CDs available for
biwa but the prices are astronomical... All the ones I can afford I have,
but they only have one or two biwa cuts. I believe it is a conspiracy by
shamisen players.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Tom Helm <junkmail@...> wrote:

> Try searching for Ugetsu-monogatari and see if the soundtrack isn't
> out there...
>
> Tom Helm
> toryu@...
> "Moriamur, et in media arma ruamus"
> - Vergil
>
>


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I think the koto players are in on it, too...


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If you have any personal contacts in Japan, there's quite a bit of
traditional music available on CDs in the 100 yen shops. (The CDs usually went
for 200 - 300 yen when I lived there, still very cheap.) I've had friends in
Japan send CDs. Even with mailing costs, this may still be the cheapest
way to go!

--RMB


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Maybe if you focused on the songs/stories traditionally paired with
biwa, instead of the instrument itself...

Tom Helm
toryu@...
"Moriamur, et in media arma ruamus"
- Vergil

On Apr 14, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Dennis Sheridan wrote:

> One of my most favorite films.. although I haven't purchased the new
> Criterion yet.. A quick scan hasn't shown anything but I'll take a
> more
> careful look later.. I really wouldn't mind ordering the CDs
> available for
> biwa but the prices are astronomical... All the ones I can afford I
> have,
> but they only have one or two biwa cuts. I believe it is a
> conspiracy by
> shamisen players.
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Tom Helm <junkmail@...>
> wrote:
>
> > Try searching for Ugetsu-monogatari and see if the soundtrack isn't
> > out there...
> >
> > Tom Helm
> > toryu@...
> > "Moriamur, et in media arma ruamus"
> > - Vergil
> >
> >
>
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>
>
>



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An excellent suggestion and one which I would pursue with vigor I must
state, however, that I would be hampered in this pursuit owing to a lack of
the required knowledge, being completely ignorant of the names of those
songs and stories associated with that instrument.

I did acquire a couple of years ago - I'm at work and cannot recall the
artist or the exact name of the album - but it was "Six Songs of Cherry
Blossoms" or something like that. The artist is well-known, I found much
about him on the web. But the tracks were titled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. I could
find no liner notes on that particular album other than "traditional
songs". It is one of my favorite albums, although the songs are not at all
like the music one hears in Ugetsu or Kwaidon (Hoichi the Earless), being
not near as "dramatic" for lack of a better term. And of course I don't
speak Japanese so I have no idea what he is singing.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Tom Helm <junkmail@...> wrote:

> Maybe if you focused on the songs/stories traditionally paired with
> biwa, instead of the instrument itself...
>
> Tom Helm
> toryu@...
> "Moriamur, et in media arma ruamus"
> - Vergil
>
>
>
> On Apr 14, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Dennis Sheridan wrote:
>
> > One of my most favorite films.. although I haven't purchased the new
> > Criterion yet.. A quick scan hasn't shown anything but I'll take a
> > more
> > careful look later.. I really wouldn't mind ordering the CDs
> > available for
> > biwa but the prices are astronomical... All the ones I can afford I
> > have,
> > but they only have one or two biwa cuts. I believe it is a
> > conspiracy by
> > shamisen players.
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Tom Helm <junkmail@...>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Try searching for Ugetsu-monogatari and see if the soundtrack isn't
> > > out there...
> > >
> > > Tom Helm
> > > toryu@...
> > > "Moriamur, et in media arma ruamus"
> > > - Vergil
> > >
> > >
> >
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