Seventeenth-century division violin music is not considered part of the classical canon, but its background as a European art form may make it seem “too Western” for traditional ethnomusicological study. The purpose of ...

五大 Godai is a five-movement composition for four solo vocalists and chamber orchestra, in which the five Japanese elements are each personified in turn: 水 water, 火 fire, 地 earth, 風 wind, and 空 aether. The personification ...