Danmono is a traditional Japanese style of instrumental music for the koto. The few pieces of its repertoire were mostly composed and developed in the seventeenth century, and all follow a strict form of composition. ==Musical style== Each danmono piece consists of a number of movements, or variations (`dan` in Japanese means `step`). Each dan...
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(from the article `arts, East Asian`) Koto music is known in general as skyoku. In the koto solo instrumental music (shirabemono), the most important type is the danmono, a variation ...
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