Sawara-bayashi music

I listed up pieces of Sawara-bayashi from my recorded sound of 4 hours (on 13th Oct. 1996) and I found following variety of music. Each sounds has around 20 kiro bytes.

Ceremonial music

Musics which are used for specified situations such as staring of a float, ending of parade and so on.

• Baka Bayashi

  It is famous as a theme music of the festival.

• Sangiri

  A fanfare which announces starting and ending of the feastival.

• Hishigi

  When a float starts to change its directioin, the music is suddenly changed to Hishigi music with high sound of flutes.

Floats going on

Music is played continuously during a parade, sometimes slowly and sometimes in high tempo.

• Azuma with an introduction "Watari"
• Sugomori-kuzushi
• Kenbayashi
• Sawara Ondo
• Sawara Kouta
• Sendou Kouta
• Zundoko-bushi (rather modern piece)
• Hokai(or Toro))
• Shishi-baka
• Yoshino
• (Unknown to me)

Music for dancing

Frequently a float stops and people pulling the float start dancing.

• Amba
• Tairyo-bushi
• Matsukazari
• Ken Bayashi
• Sawara Kouta
• Yoshino
• Rappa-bushi (origin is modern)
• Yagi-bushi and the same piece by other players
• Oni-bushi
• Yagi-bushi-kuzushi
• Waraku
• Oosugi amba