Series | Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
Edited book | The Aesthetics of Emptiness
Chapter | Un’assoluta e imperturbabile staticità
Un’assoluta e imperturbabile staticità
Lettura e ascolto di Lettera alla madre per shō
Abstract
In this article the author recalls his encounter with the shō, a traditional Japanese musical instrument, and the following composition of Lettera alla madre, a piece of music conceived under the aegis of syncretism between East and West, poised between an expanding strophic structure and childhood memories.
Submitted: Oct. 24, 2022 | Accepted: Nov. 24, 2022 | Published April 21, 2023 | Language: it
Keywords Lettera alla madre • Music composition and childhood memory • Greek lullaby Κοιμήσου καί παρήγγειλα • Shō • Synaesthesia • Japanese mouth organ
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