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This piece is one of the songs included in the Ko Matsushita's choral collection "Asia no kodomo uta" (Asian Children's Songs). There are various ways of singing "Arirang" and the composer endeavored to

Hideki Chihara composed this piece imagining a scene of the temple festivals in the ancient times. A string, the sound of which was thought to have a miraculously spiritual power, was an object to which a

This work was composed for the "Whole Japan Junior Chorus Festival 2005".Three groups sing in canon, every group expresses music like a prayer, and then all parts combine together forming a powerful force

The piece was commissioned by Co-Curricular Activities Branch of Ministry of Education, Singapore for the Singapore Youth Festival Central Judging 2007. The text is taken from a poem written by Siegfried

The text is based on the words of junior high school students who were forced out of their home town by the nuclear accident caused by the earthquake and tsunami in 2011. The music was written by their

The songs are composed by cheerfully playing on words and describe the Japanese four seasons in two volumes: one as a cappella collection and another one with piano accompaniment.

This song was born as a result of the friendship between the composer Ko Matsushita and Reiko Ito who wrote the poem. "Here Now" was accepted very well and later offered to the "Sing for Japan", a campaign

Ko Matsushita has already set many poems of Naoko Kudo into music. The unaccompanied songs express the pureness and vividness of the poems. This choral suite should be performed with the sonority full of

Note from the Composer: I made an attempt in composing these choral songs. The attempt is rather a adventurous one in vocal music work in general. And you will find ornamental figuration as experimental

Matsuura completed this "Requiem" to express her condolences to those who suffered from the Great East Japan Earthquake. The piece reminds Durufle's or Faure's "Requiem". The work's beautiful music will

These are arrangements of Mozart's "Requiem" and "Ave Verum Corpus" for two or three female voices and piano. There are plenty of ways to approach the way of singing this arrangement: with two or three

Texts full of pathos, humor and ambivalence are used in this song cycle. In these pieces, words and music sometimes compete with each other; sometimes they merge. They seem, at first, to be the opposites

In composing this suite, Ko Matsushita was strongly influenced by unaccompanied Hungarian and Scandinavian works for choirs. The composer hopes his work could assist choirs to develop their listening skills

The composer, a member of Higurashi Choir, composed these three songs for the wedding of the choir's fellow member. The songs are short, not difficult and very expressive at the same time. They have been

The powerful poetry of Minori Minazuki depicts strong and hard to break wings. The elegant melody is supported with massive chords and harmonies of the a cappella voices. It was originally written for