James Nyoraku Schlefer

Original Compositions


QUINTET– for Shakuhachi  and String Quartet  (2006)
Three movements, 25  minutes. Score and Parts in Western notation. Read a review!
  Listen to the 3rd movement

  Listen to the 2nd movement

DUO No. I – for shakuhachi and Koto (2004)
One movement, 13 minutes. Score in Western notation 
  Listen to Duo #1  

DUO No. 2 – for Shakuhachi and Shamisen (2006)
One movement,10 minutes, Score and Parts in Western notation
   Listen to Duo #2 

Duo No. 3 - for shakuuachi and 20-string koto (2007)
One movement 11 minutes. Score in Western notation

COUPLE DANCE– for Two Shakuhachi (1999)
13 minutes. Score in Western notation. Commissioned by Mary Flagler Cary Trust
Listen to Couple Dance  

TEN ORIGINAL DUETS– for Two Shakuhachi (2005)
Western and Kinko notation. Available exclusively at shakuhachi.com 


KUMOIJISHI– for Four Shakuhachi (2005)
Arrangement of traditional honkyoku in four-part harmony. Six minutes. Kinko Notation


BIG PIECE– for Shakuhachi Orchestra in Five Parts (2004)
One movement, 12 minutes. Score in Western notation, and parts in Western and    Kinko notation


BROOKLYN SANYA– for solo Shakuhachi (1999)
One movement, 9 minutes. Score in Kinko notation. Recorded on Flare Up.
Listen to Brooklyn Sanya  

FLARE UP– for solo Shakuhachi (2002)
One Movement, 8 minutes. Score in Western notation. Recorded on Flare Up
Listen to a little 


TIMELESS MOMENT– for Four Shakuhachi (2001)
One Movement, 5 minutes. Score in Western and Kinko notation.


SHAKUHACHI WORKBOOK– Exercises for Technical Development  (2000)
90 page book of scales, long tones, intervals and other etudes. Available exclusively at shakuhachi.com


DARANI REVISITED– for Shakuhachi, Violin, Viola, Cello (1998)
Arrangement of traditional honkyoku piece. One movement, 8 minutes. Score  and parts in Western notation


VARIATIONS ON "AMAZING GRACE"– for solo Shakuhachi (1997)
Kinko notation. Recorded on Solstice Spirit.


SOLSTICE SPIRIT– for Shakuhachi Orchestra in Four Parts  (1997)
18 minutes. Score in Western notation, parts in Kinko notation. Recorded on Solstice Spirit.  

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