{"id":780,"date":"2007-10-23T08:46:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T13:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/2007\/10\/23\/is-there-a-musicologist-in-the-house\/"},"modified":"2007-10-23T08:46:26","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T13:46:26","slug":"is-there-a-musicologist-in-the-house-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/is-there-a-musicologist-in-the-house-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there a musicologist in the house?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(This would ordinarily go on my other weblog, but I suspect that I&#8217;m more likely to find knowledgeable musicians among the visitors here.)<\/p>\n<p>One of the many distinctions of the eccentric anime <strong><em>Oh! Edo Rocket<\/em><\/strong> is the soundtrack. It&#8217;s mostly swing. Yusuke Homma (or Honma) is credited as the composer. A friend says that Homma didn&#8217;t merely use the big band numbers as models but plagiarized the tunes. Although much of the soundtrack sounds familiar to my ears, I don&#8217;t quite recognize any particular melodies. My knowledge of that musical era is slight, however, so I&#8217;m wondering if Homma can really claim to have written the music.<\/p>\n<p>Here are three of the numbers, &#8220;Swing,&#8221;, &#8220;Laid Back&#8221; and &#8220;Matsuri.&#8221; Have you heard these before?<\/p>\n<p><center>[mp3]http:\/\/tancos.net\/audio\/03-Swing.mp3[\/mp3]<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center>[mp3]http:\/\/tancos.net\/audio\/21-LaidBack.mp3[\/mp3]<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center>[mp3]http:\/\/tancos.net\/audio\/04-Matsuri.mp3[\/mp3]<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This would ordinarily go on my other weblog, but I suspect that I&#8217;m more likely to find knowledgeable musicians among the visitors here.) One of the many distinctions of the eccentric anime Oh! Edo Rocket is the soundtrack. It&#8217;s mostly swing. Yusuke Homma (or Honma) is credited as the composer. A friend says that Homma &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/is-there-a-musicologist-in-the-house-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is there a musicologist in the house?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-cA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}