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Robert Garfias recordings: Koto music, Undated
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Garfias, Robert
- Title
- Robert Garfias recordings: Koto music
- Dates
- Undated
- Quantity
- 6 items : EC-3 reels; WT-3 reels (7 1/2 ips, 1/2 tr. stereo, 10"); Duration: 1:05:30
- Collection Number
- 1966013
- Summary
- Koto music recorded from Japanese radio by Robert Garfias.
- Repository
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University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives
University of Washington
Ethnomusicology Archives
Box 353450
Seattle, WA
98195-3450
Telephone: 2065430974
ethnoarc@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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Unrestricted: collection is open for research.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Robert Garfias was born in San Francisco in 1932, the child of Mexican-American parents. As a youngster he studied classical guitar and jazz saxophone. In high school he studied Western classical music composition, and he formed a jazz combo that played gigs for beatniks in the North Beach area of San Francisco, where he traveled in a circle of musicians that included Dave Brubeck, Vince Delgado, Vince Guaraldi, Harry Partch, and Bill Smith. During his career he founded the ethnomusicology program at the University of Washington; served as Dean of Arts at the University of California, Irvine, as a member of the Smithsonian Council, and as a presidential appointee to the U.S. National Council for the Arts; and conducted significant periods of fieldwork and language study in Japan, Okinawa, Korea, the Philippines, Mexico, Zimbabwe, Central America, Burma, Romania, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, and among Okinawans in the United States.
- Society for Ethnomusicology Newsletter (Vol. 7, No. 4, September 2013)
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
66-13.3 doesn't have field number - may not go with other tapes.
Contents -
Tape 1 (66-13.1) Akikaze no kyoku (by Mitszuki Kenjyo) (Koto: Furukawa Taro; Voice: Kishibe Yori); Mizukumi (composed by Furukawa Taro in 1953) (Koto: Furukawa Taro; Voice: Kishibe Yori)
Tape 2 (66-13.2) Yuya (one of the most representative compositions by the founder of the Yamada school, Yamada-Kengyo (1757-1817); an excerpt from the No play of the same name is used as the basis for text)
Tape 3 (66-13.3) Matsukaze (Yamada ryu) (handwritten list of performers - Nakunoshima Kin'ichi, Nakunoshima Keiko, Notome Jodo [sp.?])
Documentation: Hand-written notes.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Classical Music--Japan
- Ethnomusicology
- Koto music
- Music, Japanese
- Music--Japan
- Radio
Geographical Names
- Asia
- Japan
Form or Genre Terms
- Radio programs
- Sound Recordings