Quintet is a TV program which is aired by NHK Educational

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 in Japan.

About the show

The program offers witty interpretations of classical music

Classical music

Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

 for children. Programs feature puppets and a variety of music and cultural entertainment. This program introduces nonsense and music into daily life for the pleasure of children, and features a musical group called "The Evening Quintet". The music featured includes folk songs and classical music, with a variety of instruments such as piano, violin, and clarinet.

Schedule

• From April 7, 2003 to April 2, 2004, it was aired in four parts starting weekdays at 17:00.
  • 1st part: 17:00-17:01
  • 2nd part: 17:11-17:14
  • 3rd part: 17:32-17:35
  • 4th part: 17:45-17:50
• From April 5, 2004 to March 31, 2006, it was shown as a continuous 10-minute program.
  • 17:50-18:00
• From April 3, 2006 to March 30, 2007, the start time was changed and Quintet Petit was started. The use of subtitles was also started.
  • Quintet: 17:30-17:40
  • Quintet Petit: 7:55-8:00
• From April 2, 2007 to March 30, 2008, the start time was changed again and Quintet Petit was discontinued. The show was broadcast in the morning with a rebroadcast of the same show that evening.
  • 7:50-8:00, 17:50-18:00
• From March 31, 2008 to March 29, 2009, the on air time was changed again, and Quintet Petit was reintroduced. The show also started on airing on Saturdays. By the way, on sirring on Saturdays is rebroadcasting.
  • Quintet: 17:50-18:00(Mon-Fri), 8:25-8:35(Sat)
  • Quintet Petit: 7:25-7:30
• From March 30, 2009 to March 27, 2010, the start time was changed and Quintet Petit was discontinued again. The show was once again broadcast in the morning with a rebroadcast of the same show that evening.
  • 7:25-7:35 (Mon-Fri), 17:50-18:00 (Mon-Fri), 8:25-8:35 (Sat).
• From March 29, 2010, the show on airring in the morning was discontinued.
  • 17:50-18:00 (Mon-Fri), 8:25-8:35 (Sat).
• From March 28, 2011, the show on airring in the weekdays was discontinued. By the way, the new TV program named HOOK BOOK ROW is on airred on weekdays.
  • 8:25-8:35, 17:25-17:35 (Sat).

Quintet

• 1st part: A formal theme songs is played.
• 2nd part: A puppet show is presented.
• 3rd part: Animation or other material.
• 4th part: A musical concert.
• 5th part: One of several ending themes, depending on the season.

Quintet Petit

Quintet Petit was broadcast from April 3, 2006 to March 30, 2007 and March 31, 2008 to March 27, 2009. It used the third and fourth parts from the main show.

Characters

• Akira (Akira Miyagawa): He is a puppet
  Puppet
  A puppet is an inanimate object or representational figure animated or manipulated by an entertainer, who is called a puppeteer. It is used in puppetry, a play or a presentation that is a very ancient form of theatre....
  
   concert master and pianist
  Pianist
  A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
  
  . The audience does not know how old he is. He does not speak because he is not human. He also plays guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , triangle
  Triangle
  A triangle is one of the basic shapes of geometry: a polygon with three corners or vertices and three sides or edges which are line segments. A triangle with vertices A, B, and C is denoted ....
  
  , and other instruments. He wears glasses.
• Score (Haruhiko Saitō): He is a puppet cellist, 67 years old. He is funny and shy. He has beard. He had many careers when he was young.
• Flat (Tesshō Genda
  Tessho Genda
  is a Japanese voice actor. He is employed by the talent management firm 81 Produce. When he debuted, he used his real name, . as artist name. Because he had experience with ballet, he was known by the nickname "Pirouette Genda."...
  
  ): He is a puppet clarinet player
  Clarinet
  The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
  
  , 42 years old. He has a dog named Folte. He also plays harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
  .
• Aria (Ayumi Shigemori
  Ayumi Shigemori
  is a Japanese actress and pop star. She sang on the major J-pop hit "Dango 3 Kyodai".-External links:...
  
  ): She is a 28-year-old puppet violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  ist. Her soprano voice
  Soprano
  A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
  
   is beautiful. She also plays accordion
  Accordion
  The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
  
  , but she cannot play piano. She has brond hair.
• Sharp (Ken'ya Ōsumi): He is a puppet trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
   player and percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
   player. 22 years old, He likes soccer and comics
  Comics
  Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...
  
  . He also plays guitar. He is good at painting pictures.
• Chi-Boo: He is a baby puppet and percussion player. He is 11 months old. He also sells concert ticket.

Partial list of original songs

The original songs are written by Kei Shimoyama and Akira Miyagawa. Here are some of them.

• "The midnight Zoo"
• "It's Good to Cry"
• "Lie"
• "I Hate Practicing"
• "My habits"
• "Someday When I Become the Star"
• "I Got Hungry"
• "I Am Thinking Now"
• "The Song About the Yawns"
• "The Secret Chocolate"
• "Devil's advocate"
• "Baby"
• "Tomorrow"
• "The cello player in front of the square"
• "Golden-ringed dragonfly"
• "I ate too much"
• "The happiness Xmas"
• "Oh, it smells good"
• "Look at the sky"
• "Talking with flowers"

Theme song

"The 'You gotta Quintet' Theme" is used to open and close the show. The text of theme song changes with the seasons; the spring version is aired from March to May, the summer version is aired from June to August, the autumn version is aired from September to November, and the winter version is used from December to February. The text of the opening theme was changed in 2007.

Singing corner

In this featurette the Quintet song team presents original songs, works derived from classical material, and folk songs. Here are some of them.

• "Let's Clap When You Feel Happy"
• "Railway Songs Yamanote Line"
• "Zuizui Zukkoro Bashi"
• "Salut D'Amour"
• "Boléro
  Boléro
  Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece by Maurice Ravel . Originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian ballerina Ida Rubinstein, the piece, which premiered in 1928, is Ravel's most famous musical composition....
  
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• "Humoresque
  Humoresque
  Humoresque is a genre of romantic music characterized by pieces with fanciful humor in the sense of mood rather than wit. The name refers to the German term Humoreske, which was given from the 1800s onward to humorous tales....
  
  "
• "Wedding march"
• "Träumerei"
• "The Blue Danube
  The Blue Danube
  The Blue Danube is the common English title of An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314 , a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866...
  
  "
• "La Prière d'une Vierge
  Maiden's Prayer
  "A Maiden's Prayer" is a composition of Polish composer Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska , which was published in 1856 in Warsaw, and then as a supplement to the Revue et gazette musicale de Paris in 1859.The piece is a medium difficulty short...
  
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Repeat

• Puppet show and animation from the fourth to the second part does not mean it is not a new one every time. Get a new one, but sometimes, most times are just trying to shuffle a play for broadcasting up to that point I did a full re-broadcast. This system is called repeat.
• Only posts from the viewer does not repeat this.

Rebroadcast

Quintet

Two weeks in a row two weeks of reruns the previous week.

Quintet Petit

First week of each month, two weeks after this broadcast, a rerun of the first week of the third week, reruns will be broadcast two weeks to four weeks.

CDs

• You Gotta Quintet: Songs (2004)
• You Gotta Quintet: Classics (2004)
• You Gotta Quintet: Concert (2005)
• You Gotta Quintet: à la Carte (2005)
• You Gotta Quintet: Are Kore (2006)
• I Am Thinking Now (2007)
• You Gotta Quintet: Midnight Zoo (2008)
• You Gotta Quintet: The Dream Continues (2010)
• You Gotta Quintet Best selection 66 songs (2010)
• You Gotta Quintet Essence (2011)

DVDs

• Music (2006)
• An original (2006)
• A Harvest Festival (2007)
• It Is This What! (2007)
• A Concert Almost Empty (2008)
• Ten Komori (2009)
• The Only Anime (2009)
• The Whole Years (2010)
• Goooooal (2011)

Awards

On December 1, 2005, the program won a Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union

Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union

The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union , formed in 1964, is a non-profit, professional association of broadcasting organisations. It currently has 200 members in 57 countries and regions, reaching a potential audience of about 3 billion people....

 Award in the children/young people program section) with the notation "that was able to stream down splendor, the pleasure that this program used the doll, and the music had" at the 42nd annual general meeting in Hanoi

Hanoi

Hanoi , is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city. Its population in 2009 was estimated at 2.6 million for urban districts, 6.5 million for the metropolitan jurisdiction. From 1010 until 1802, it was the most important political centre of Vietnam...

, Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

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Production staff

• Producer/Director: Kei Shimoyama
• Music: Akira Miyagawa, Zenyō Nagayama, Vega Ensemble, Face Music
• Drawing supervision: Ryuji Fujieda and his design studio
• Character design: Ryuji Fujieda and his design studio
• Cartoon animation: Tadahiko Horiguchi
• Puppets produced by: Matsushima Hiroshi
• Puppetmaster: Kigutsunoki
• Supervision: Yasuhiro Kondō

External links

• Quintet (Quintet at the NHK
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