Tales of Thrush Forest
33 Pieces for Piano Solo
Composer: Osamu Katsuki
Instrumentation: Piano solo
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Format: Book only
Pages: 68
Page size: 227 x 303 mm
ISBN: 978-4-11-178707-4
ISMN: M-2233-2854-8
Price: JPY 1,700
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These lyrical works are themed around forest scenery like the sound of wind, color of the sky, snow, birds and animals. Colorful harmonies that change beautifully stir emotions in players and listeners. From children to adults, everyone can enjoy this graceful, poetic album.
Contents and Sample Audio
- 1. Prologue
- 2. When morning first begins
- 3. Shall we dance waltz with spring winds?
- 4. A walk with little squirrels
- 5. A bouquet of lily of the valley
- 6. Hammocking with light through the leaves
- 7. Steps of spring
- 8. Birds playing in water
- 9. Solitude
- 10. A little song of lament
- 11. Winter winds
- 12. Dance in Dorian mode
- 13. To the night stars twinkle
- 14. Forlana
- 15. A doll dreaming
- 16. Sorrows unspoken
- 17. Angel feather
- 18. Carnival in forest
- 19. Duet of kingfishers
- 20. Baby foxes in snow
- 21. Dance Antique
- 22. Gavotte of young deer
- 23. Spinning pinwheel
- 24. A ballerina in woods
- 25. A woodpecker on a silver birch
- 26. Cradle song
- 27. Ball under moonlight
- 28. Arabesque in forest
- 29. Dancing hailstones
- 30. Fairy Minuet
- 31. Nocturne of cuckoo
- 32. Chorale -morning prayer-
- 33. Toccatina
Composer
Osamu Katsuki
Osamu Katsuki was born in 1948. He graduated from the Composition Course of Toho Gakuen College Music Department. Commissioned by New National Theatre, Tokyo, his opera was performed at the theatre in 2013. He has served as a judge of competitions including the composition category of the Music Competition of Japan. He had been a professor of the Composition Course of Toho Gakuen College Music Department until 2015.