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Name
  
Kinshi Tsuruta

Role
  
Musician

Died
  
1995


Kinshi Tsuruta Kinshi Tsuruta Satsuma Biwa CD Album at Discogs


Albums
  
Satsuma Biwa, Biwa, The world of Tsuruta Kinshi

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Katsuya Yokoyama, Toru Takemitsu, Saito Kinen Orchestra, Hiroshi Wakasugi, Nobuko Imai

Kinshi tsuruta epic recitation of the genre satsuma biwa


Kinshi Tsuruta (鶴田 錦史, Tsuruta Kinshi, 1911–1995) was an eminent Japanese musician of the 20th century. She specialized in the ancient pear-shaped plucked lute called biwa, and also sang. She developed her own form of the Satsuma biwa, which is sometimes referred to as Tsuruta biwa. This biwa differs from the traditional Satsuma biwa in the number of frets, construction of the head, and occasionally a doubled 4th string. The additional frets allows a wider range of notes to be played which makes it possible to perform modern and western compositions.

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Tsuruta achieved international attention for her New York City premiere performance, in November 1967, of Tōru Takemitsu's November Steps with the New York Philharmonic, under the direction of Seiji Ozawa (with shakuhachi player Katsuya Yokoyama).

She has many well known students, such as Yukio Tanaka, Yoshiko Sakata, and Junko Ueda.

kinshi tsuruta dan no ura 1966


References

Kinshi Tsuruta Wikipedia


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