Hunter X Hunter (2011) "暗殺一家の館" (Ansatsu Ikka No Yakata)
Yoshihisa Hirano
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Browse piano sheets by Yoshihisa Hirano on Zen Virtual Piano. Yoshihisa Hirano was drawn to baroque music and began teaching himself composition while still in elementary school. Jazz entered his life in high school, and the music of Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Eric Dolphy and John Coltrane inspired him to imagine a jazz career, until he discovered contemporary music. He won first prize in Japan's Axia Tape Competition during his high school years, and he also received an award from New York's New Music for Young Ensembles. A child composing alone and a teenager chasing jazz hints at a curiosity that ran well past any single style. In New York, the Eastman School of Music became his school, with Christopher Rouse and Joseph Schwantner teaching him composition. Most of his Eastman time went to reading and composing instead of attending class, as he was drawn to twentieth-century French authors such as Bataille, Klossowski, Mandiargues and Genet. After many twists and turns he left the school. Reading literature in place of lectures suggests that his musical thinking was shaped as much by books as by teachers. Beyblade, an anime, gave him his composing debut in 2001; he also made music for Tokyo DisneySea's 2002 and 2004 countdown celebrations. In 2002 he paired with the pianist Masako Hosoda to form the unit Bleu, which has released three albums since then. Many anime scores followed, along with pieces for concert, dance, film and radio that span classical, pop and contemporary idioms. A debut in animation, then music for theme-park celebrations, then a unit with a pianist, suggest a career that branched out in stages. Study with Rouse and Schwantner, beside music for concert, dance, film and radio, may hint at a composer whose schooling and output both reached beyond anime. His style combines impressionism and atonal music, and polyrhythm, tone clusters, polytonality, brass glissandi and polymodal chromaticism all appear in his writing. He is best known for scores to anime including Death Note, Hunter x Hunter (2011), Hajime no Ippo and Edens Zero. The original soundtrack to Hunter x Hunter holds 39 tracks and includes the intro theme departure! by Masatoshi Ono and the outro Just Awake by Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas. A technical vocabulary that includes polyrhythm and tone clusters suggests the scores are more layered than a plain list of series implies. A soundtrack that holds 39 tracks, including songs credited to other artists, may hint at how a single series gathers several musical voices.
Browse piano sheets by Yoshihisa Hirano on Zen Virtual Piano.
Yoshihisa Hirano was drawn to baroque music and began teaching himself composition while still in elementary school. Jazz entered his life in high school, and the music of Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Eric Dolphy and John Coltrane inspired him to imagine a jazz career, until he discovered contemporary music. He won first prize in Japan's Axia Tape Competition during his high school years, and he also received an award from New York's New Music for Young Ensembles. A child composing alone and a teenager chasing jazz hints at a curiosity that ran well past any single style.
In New York, the Eastman School of Music became his school, with Christopher Rouse and Joseph Schwantner teaching him composition. Most of his Eastman time went to reading and composing instead of attending class, as he was drawn to twentieth-century French authors such as Bataille, Klossowski, Mandiargues and Genet. After many twists and turns he left the school. Reading literature in place of lectures suggests that his musical thinking was shaped as much by books as by teachers.
Beyblade, an anime, gave him his composing debut in 2001; he also made music for Tokyo DisneySea's 2002 and 2004 countdown celebrations. In 2002 he paired with the pianist Masako Hosoda to form the unit Bleu, which has released three albums since then. Many anime scores followed, along with pieces for concert, dance, film and radio that span classical, pop and contemporary idioms. A debut in animation, then music for theme-park celebrations, then a unit with a pianist, suggest a career that branched out in stages. Study with Rouse and Schwantner, beside music for concert, dance, film and radio, may hint at a composer whose schooling and output both reached beyond anime.
His style combines impressionism and atonal music, and polyrhythm, tone clusters, polytonality, brass glissandi and polymodal chromaticism all appear in his writing. He is best known for scores to anime including Death Note, Hunter x Hunter (2011), Hajime no Ippo and Edens Zero. The original soundtrack to Hunter x Hunter holds 39 tracks and includes the intro theme departure! by Masatoshi Ono and the outro Just Awake by Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas. A technical vocabulary that includes polyrhythm and tone clusters suggests the scores are more layered than a plain list of series implies. A soundtrack that holds 39 tracks, including songs credited to other artists, may hint at how a single series gathers several musical voices.
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Yoshihisa Hirano is a composer best known for anime scores.
He studied composition at the Eastman School of Music with Christopher Rouse and Joseph Schwantner.
His credits include Death Note, Hunter x Hunter (2011), Hajime no Ippo and Edens Zero.
Bleu is a unit he formed in 2002 with the pianist Masako Hosoda, which has released three albums since then.