"浜辺の歌 / Song of the Beach" accompaniment melody on its own ♪ Tamezo Narita ♪ chromatic harp
0In the book "101 Favorite Songs - Taught in Japanese Schools" (The Japan Times, Ltd. (1991)), there's a song called "浜辺の歌 / Song of the Beach" in an arrangement by Tamezo Narita. This is the piano accompaniment on its own, played on chromatic harp as if it were its own song.
More about the chromatic harp in my video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AdRN2xSOG4 .
Sea photo on the title slide was made by me on the beach in Porto, Portugal.
Photos in this video made by me on the beach of Scheveningen, in the Netherlands.
The video of my harp I made in the Keep In Mind studio, owned by @kittyocean , so the drawings you see in the video are made by her.
Book info from which I got the sheet music:
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL26896854M/101_favorite_songs_taught_in_Japanese_schools
https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/998317783506421
https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/101-favorite-songs-taught-japanese-schools/
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4789005690/ref=nosim/?tag=librarythin06-20
Info about this song from the book:
Song of the Beach (1916)
Tamezo Narita, a musician, wrote this song on the European seven-tone scale in 6.8 time. His intention was to finish this song in a modern touch. He was a student of Tokyo Music School then. When the music was published, however, this song was welcomed among intellectuals and girls' high school students because of its strange sentiment which appealed to the heart of the Japanese. Since then it has been regarded as one of the few artistic masterpieces of Japan. This song expresses the quiet, tender feeling of a man roaming along the beach.
For comparison, I used the exact same microphone to record a song with my lever harp in these videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qPY7rN8XHE&list=PLg2mtqSFBT7lTm5wOkXGjzQ8wQZNOGZyc&index=7&pp=gAQBiAQB8AUB , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCfuH06nCaM&list=PLg2mtqSFBT7lTm5wOkXGjzQ8wQZNOGZyc&index=12&pp=gAQBiAQB8AUB , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SBzTWWmGbM&list=PLg2mtqSFBT7lTm5wOkXGjzQ8wQZNOGZyc&index=18&pp=gAQBiAQB8AUB .
More chromatic harp music: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg2mtqSFBT7l2B6xZ993jk_zzZg_2q0h6
All my harp recordings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg2mtqSFBT7lTm5wOkXGjzQ8wQZNOGZyc
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Recorded with:
- Zoom LiveTrak-L8 recording device:
https://zoomcorp.com/en/us/digital-mixer-multi-track-recorders/digital-mixer-recorder/LIVETRAK-L-8/
- Ischell X48C3 contact microphone:
https://www.ischell.com/en/products/x48c/
- Chromatic harp (type 6/6)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AdRN2xSOG4
built by me at Klangwerkstatt workshop, Germany
in November 2023
https://www.klangwerkstatt.de/
Note: I am just listing my recording equipment for informational purposes! I'm not affiliated with these companies in any way and I bought everything myself. When other people post videos of their recordings, I'm also always interested in how exactly they recorded it, which equipment they used, etc. It's because I wanted to know how I could best record the sound and other people might be looking for similar information.