Tegoto by michio miyagi biography

          Tegoto, a koto solo composed by the legendary Michio Miyagi in , draws upon representative genres of Edo period koto music.!

          Abstract: Miyagi Michio gilA L (), koto performer, composer, and edu- cator, was a musical innovator who modified traditional instruments.

        1. Miyagi was the first traditional performer and composer who was conversant in both Japanese and Western traditions.
        2. Tegoto, a koto solo composed by the legendary Michio Miyagi in , draws upon representative genres of Edo period koto music.
        3. Michio Miyagi () The composer Michio Miyagi lost his sight at the age of seven but by the age of eleven was already teaching the koto.
        4. Michio Miyagi was the person that popularized the Koto in Japanese music in the last century.

          5. Tegoto (手事)

          Tegoto is a long part of instrumental music sandwiched between vocal music in a piece by an instrumental trio, which is a collective term for jiuta (a genre of traditional songs with accompaniment by shamisen (three-stringed lute)), sokyoku (koto (thirteen-stringed Japanese zither) music), and kokyugaku (Chinese fiddle music).

          Tegoto can also be considered as being a quasi-independent movement. The type of piece or style of a composition which is equipped with tegoto is called "tegotomono."

          Summary
          The word "tegoto" is derived from the 'act' ('koto' in Japanese) of performing using only 'hands' ('te' in Japanese), which originally referred to a manner of performance, technique, or part by an instrument in traditional Japanese music.

          The traditional Japanese music of the early-modern times centered around vocal music; however, instrumental music developed significantly in the instrumental trio. Tegoto is a typical example of such cases. Originally, tegoto developed