is a Japanese

children's television program Children's television series (or children's television shows) are television programs designed for children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are awake. They can sometimes run during the early evenin ...

which aired on NHK Educational.

About the show

The program offers witty interpretations of

classical music Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" also ...

for children featuring

puppet A puppet is an object, often resembling a human, animal or Legendary creature, mythical figure, that is animated or manipulated by a person called a puppeteer. The puppeteer uses movements of their hands, arms, or control devices such as rods ...

s and a variety of music and cultural entertainment. This program introduces music into daily life for the pleasure of children, and features a musical group called ''The Evening Quintet''. They play

folk songs Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has be ...

and classical music, with a variety of instruments such as piano, violin, and clarinet.

Program

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

concert master The concertmaster (from the German ''Konzertmeister''), first chair (U.S.) or leader (U.K.) is the principal first violin player in an orchestra (or clarinet in a concert band). After the conductor, the concertmaster is the second-most signifi ...

and

pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...

. The audience does not know how old he is. He does not speak because he is not human. He also plays

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

triangle A triangle is a polygon with three Edge (geometry), edges and three Vertex (geometry), vertices. It is one of the basic shapes in geometry. A triangle with vertices ''A'', ''B'', and ''C'' is denoted \triangle ABC. In Euclidean geometry, an ...

, and other instruments. He wears glasses. *Score ( Haruhiko Saitō): He is a puppet

cellist The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G2, D3 ...

, 67 years old. He is funny and shy. He has beard. He had many careers when he was young. *Flat (

Tesshō Genda is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator. 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 Gend ...

): He is a puppet clarinet player, 42 years old. He has a dog named

Forte Forte or Forté may refer to: Music *Forte (music), a musical dynamic meaning "loudly" or "strong" *Forte number, an ordering given to every pitch class set *Forte (notation program), a suite of musical score notation programs *Forte (vocal gro ...

. He also plays

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

. *Aria (

Ayumi Shigemori is a Japanese actress and pop star. She sang on the major J-pop hit "Dango 3 Kyodai". Appearances * '' You Gotta Quintet'' * ''Cheap Love "Cheap Love" is a song written and recorded by Del Shannon for his 1983 album ''Drop Down and Get Me''. ...

): She is a 28-year-old puppet

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

ist, and the only female member. Her soprano voice is beautiful. She also plays

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

, but she cannot play piano. She has blonde hair. *Sharp ( Ken'ya Ōsumi): He is a puppet

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

player and

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

player. 22 years old, he likes

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

and

comics a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate ...

. 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 tickets.

Partial list of original songs

The original songs are written by Kei Shimoyama and composed by Akira Miyagawa. Here are some of them. * Midnight Zoo ��夜中の動物園* It's Good to Cry ��いたっていいじゃない* Lie ��そ* I Hate Practicing ��習だいきらい* My habits ��くのクセ* "Someday When I Become a Star" ��つか星になったら* "I Got Hungry" ��なかがへった* "I Am Thinking Now" ��だいま考え中* "The Yawning Song" ��くびのうた* "The Secret Chocolate" ��みつのチョコレート* "Baby" ��ちゃん* "Tomorrow" ��した* "The Cello Player in Front of the Square" ��場のチェロ弾き* "Golden-ringed dragonfly" ��とんぼ* "I ate too much" ��べすぎたのね* "The happiness Xmas" ��あわせクリスマス* "Oh, it smells good" ��あいいにおい* "Look at the sky" ��みてごらん* "Talking with Flowers" ��はなとおはなし

Theme song

The 'You Gotta Quintet' Theme" is used to open and close the show. The lyrics of the theme song changes depending on the seasons; the spring version from March to May, summer from June to August, autumn from September to November, winter version from December to February. The lyrics 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. * "If You're Happy and You Know It" * "Railway Songs

Yamanote Line The Yamanote Line ( ja, 山手線, Yamanote-sen) is a loop service in Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It is one of Tokyo's busiest and most important lines, connecting most of Tokyo's major stations and urban ...

" * " Zuizui Zukkoro Bashi" * "

Salut d'Amour ''Salut d'Amour'' (''Liebesgruß''), Op. 12, is a musical work composed by Edward Elgar in 1888, originally written for violin and piano. History Elgar finished the piece in July 1888, when he was romantically involved with Caroline Alice Elg ...

" * "

Boléro ''Boléro'' is a 1928 work for large orchestra by French composer Maurice Ravel. At least one observer has called it Ravel's most famous composition. It was also one of his last completed works before illness forced him into retirement. Co ...

" * "

Humoresque Humoresque (or Humoreske) is a genre of Romantic music characterized by pieces with fanciful humor in the sense of mood rather than wit. History The name refers to the German term ''Humoreske'', which was given from the 1800s (decade) onward to h ...

" * "

Wedding march Music is often played at wedding celebrations, including during the ceremony and at festivities before or after the event. The music can be performed live by instrumentalists or vocalists or may use pre-recorded songs, depending on the format o ...

" * "

Träumerei ' (, "Scenes from Childhood"), Op. 15, by Robert Schumann, is a set of thirteen pieces of music for piano written in 1838. History and description Schumann wrote 30 movements for this work but chose 13 for the final version. The unused mov ...

" * "

The Blue Danube "The Blue Danube" is the common English title of "An der schönen blauen Donau", Op. 314 (German for "By the Beautiful Blue Danube"), a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866. Originally performed on 15 Februa ...

" * " La Prière d'une Vierge"

Repeat and Rebroadcast

Repeat

*Puppet shows and animations 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 and DVDs

CDs

*''You Gotta Quintet: Songs'' (2004) *''You Gotta Quintet: Classics'' (2004) *''You Gotta Quintet: Concert'' ��ンサート(2005) *''You Gotta Quintet: à la Carte'' ��ラカルテ(2005) *''You Gotta Quintet: Are Kore'' ��レ！コレ！(2006) *''I'm Thinking About It'' ��だいま考え中(2007) *''You Gotta Quintet: Midnight Zoo'' ��夜中の動物園(2008) *''You Gotta Quintet: Dream Continuation'' ��のつづき(2010) *''You Gotta Quintet Best Selection 66 Songs'' (2010) *''You Gotta Quintet: What! Sense?'' ��ッ！センス？(2011)

DVDs

*''Classic'' ��ラシック(2006) *''Original'' ��リジナル(2006) *''Harvest Festival'' ��穫祭(2007) *''It Is This What!'' ��に！これ！(2007) *''A Concert Almost Empty'' ��ラガラコンサート(2008) *''Ten Komori'' ��ンコモリ(2009) *''The Only Anime'' ��コトンアニメ(2009) *''The Whole Years'' ��ンガラネンジュウ(2010) *''GOOOOOAL!（ゴール！）'' (2011)

Awards

On December 1, 2005, the program won an

Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU or APBU), formed in 1964, is a non-profit, professional association of broadcasting organisations. It currently has over 287 members in 57 countries and regions, reaching a potential audience of about 3 bil ...

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 or Ha Noi ( or ; vi, Hà Nội ) is the capital and second-largest city of Vietnam. It covers an area of . It consists of 12 urban districts, one district-leveled town and 17 rural districts. Located within the Red River Delta, Hanoi is ...

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Production

*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 *Animation: Tadahiko Horiguchi *Puppets produced by: Matsushima Hiroshi *Puppetmaster: Kigutsunoki *Supervision: Yasuhiro Kondō *Production Company -

81 Produce is a voice talent management firm in Japan founded on 3 February 1981 (thus the year is the company's namesake). A hybrid CD-ROM featuring voice talent data for members of 81 Produce was released on 19 October 1997. The company is located in Sh ...

*Studio -

NHK , also known as NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized initialism in Japanese, is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee. NHK operates two terrestri ...

References

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