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Miki Minoru - Miki Minoru (三木稔, 1930- ) is a Japanese composer and artistic director, particularly known for his promotional activities in favour of Japanese (as well as Chinese and Korean) traditional instruments and some of their performers. His vast catalogue, where aforementioned traditional instruments figure profusely either solo or in various types of ensemble with or without 'Western' instruments, demonstrates large stylistic and formal diversity.

Moontower - Moontower is a solo album by Swedish musician Dan Swanö. To date, it is his only solo work: he plays all instruments and recorded the album himself in his home studio.

Concerto for Orchestra - Although a concerto is usually a piece of music for one or more solo instruments pitted against an orchestra, several composers have written works with the apparently contradictory title Concerto for Orchestra. This title is usually chosen to emphasise soloistic and virtuosic treatment of the instruments of the orchestra.

Gamelan Surakarta - A typical large, "double" gamelan in contemporary Solo (Surakarta) will include, in the sléndro set, one saron panerus (or saron peking), two saron barang (music), one or two saron demung, one gender panerus, one gender barung, one slenthem (or "gender panembung"), one bonang panerus and one bonang barung (each with twelve gongs), one gambang kayu, one siter or celempung, one rebab, one suling, one pair of kethuk and kempyang, one set of three to five kenong, one set of three to five kempul, one to three gong suwukan, and one gong ageng. The complementary set of pelog instruments will include two each of gender panerus, gender barung, gambang and site or celempung, the first of each pair tuned to the pelog bem subset of five tones (tones 1,2,3,5,6), the second to the pelog ...

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Arash Dejkam's Iran Pages - Description of the Persian santoor and MP3 of solo performance.

Lukjanik, Rafael - Modern Classix. Spektakuläre Bearbeitungen berühmter Orchesterwerke für das Xylophon und Vibraphon als virtuose Solo-Instrumente und Begleitensemble (Piano, Bass, Drums und Percussion). Porträt, Repertoire und Kontakt.

Thompson Edition, Inc. - Specializing in solo and chamber music for brass, and solo instruments with band accompaniment.

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