Lullaby For The Moon - Japanese Music For Koto And Shakuhachi's lyrics & chords

Featured here are the works of several modern composers writing for the koto and shakuhachi. For anyone unfamiliar with these instruments, which are basic staples in Japanese music: The koto is a plucked-string instrument with silk strings and movable bridges to manipulate the pitch, played with finger picks. The shakuhachi is a magnificent flute made from the bottom of a stalk of bamboo, including the root. It takes two decades to master this instrument, which can play scales and microtones. The sound of air through bamboo is unlike any other...read more