User:Ethanbas/Akatombo
"Red Dragonfly" (赤とんぼ, transliterated as "Akatombo", "Aka Tombo", "Akatonbo", "Aka Tonbo", or "Aka Tomba") is a famous Japanese children's song composed by Kosaku Yamada in 1927 with lyrics from a 1921 poem by Miki Rofū.[1][2] It is a nostalgic depiction of a red dragonfly seen by an infant over a sister's shoulder at sunset.[3][4][5][6][7]
Yamada was heavily influenced by Robert Schumann and other German composers,[8] and the pentatonic melody of this song closely resembles a musical phrase that is prominently repeated numerous times in Schumann's Concert Allegro with Introduction for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 134 (1853).[9]
References[edit]
- ^ Tsurumi, Shunsuke (2009). A Cultural History of Postwar Japan 1945-1960 (Hardback) (English ed.). Routledge. pp. 109–110. ISBN 978-0-7103-0259-5. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
- ^ "Dragonfly (Tombo)". Retrieved 19 February 2017.
- ^ Jean Ma (1 June 2010). Melancholy Drift: Marking Time in Chinese Cinema. Hong Kong University Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-988-8028-06-1.
- ^ 表記は三木露風 (1926), 『小鳥の友』(童謡詩人叢書 ; 第3), 新潮社, 48-49頁に従い、それを現代仮名遣いに改めた。
- ^ 若井勲夫 (2008), 『童謡・わらべ歌新釈(上) 』, 京都産業大学論集. 人文科学系列 38, 172-147頁
- ^ 吉行淳之介 『赤とんぼ騒動』 「文藝春秋」第59巻第9号（1981年8月1日発行）所収、『赤とんぼ騒動 わが文学生活 1980〜1981』 潮出版社 1981年
- ^ "日本語の美しさ 第44回 歌詞のアクセント1". 千駄ヶ谷日本語教育研究所. Retrieved 2017-02-19.
- ^ Kósçak Yamada (1886-1965): Nagauta Symphony "Tsurukame"; Symphony "Inno Meiji"; Choreographic Symphony "Maria Magdalena" (PDF) (Media notes). IVY Corporation & Naxos Rights International Ltd. 2006. p. 2. Naxos 8.557971. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
- ^ Lucas, M. Jill (2002). Spinning Jenny and Devil's Darning Needle. David Miller. p. 38.
External links[edit]
- "Aka Tonbo" at AllMusic
- Lyrics with an English translation by Dianne Ooka. From: Yoko Imoto (ed), Best-Loved Children's Songs from Japan (Torrance: Heian International, 1996)
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