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Romance | ||||
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Studio album by ALI PROJECT | ||||
Released | December 6, 2006 | |||
Label | Tokuma Japan Communications | |||
ALI PROJECT chronology | ||||
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Romance is an album by Ali Project, released on December 6, 2006, (the same day that their "Baragoku Otome" single was released) by Tokuma Japan Communications (catalog number: TKCU-77128). It is the fourth album in their series of string and piano orchestration album.
Ali Project is a Japanese band with a strong Japanese Aristocrat-style image, consisting of Arika Takarano and Mikiya Katakura.
The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family. It normally consists of first and second violins, violas, cellos, and double basses. It is the most numerous group in the typical Classical orchestra. In discussions of the instrumentation of a musical work, the phrase "the strings" or "and strings" is used to indicate a string section as just defined. An orchestra consisting solely of a string section is called a string orchestra. Smaller string sections are sometimes used in jazz, pop and rock music and in the pit orchestras of musical theatre.
The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.
As with the previous albums in the series, this album comprises orchestrated versions of their older works, some new songs, a cover song and an instrumental track. New songs for this album are "La caléche ~ Haru no Yuki", "Saigo no Koi" and "Koyoi, Aoi Mori Fukaku". "L'oiseau bleu" is a vocal cover version of a music piece by Schubert.
Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. Also called "instrumentation", orchestration is the selection of different instruments to play the different parts of a musical work. For example, a work for solo piano could be adapted and orchestrated so that an orchestra could perform the piece, or a concert band piece could be orchestrated for a symphony orchestra.
In popular music, a cover version, cover song, revival, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre, including more than 600 secular vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of piano and chamber music. His major works include the Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 , the Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 , the three last piano sonatas, the opera Fierrabras, the incidental music to the play Rosamunde, and the song cycles Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise.
# | Track name | Romaji |
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01 | ロマンス [Instrumental] | Romance [Instrumental] |
02 | ビアンカ | Bianca |
03 | ダリの宝石店 | Dali no Housekiten |
04 | La calèche~春の雪 | La calèche ~ Haru no Yuki |
05 | 嵐ヶ丘 | Arashigaoka |
06 | 楽園喪失 | Rakuen Soushitsu |
07 | 遊月恋歌 | Yuugetsu Renka |
08 | L'oiseau bleu | |
09 | さいごの戀 | Saigo no Koi |
10 | 今宵、碧い森深く | Koyoi, Aoi Mori Fukaku |
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