Hiroshi Miyagawa

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Hiroshi Miyagawa is a Japanese composer best known for the music of Space Battleship Yamato, also called Star Blazers in the West. He worked for the producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki, whose company West Cape Corporation made the Yamato series.

Music and breakthrough

His music for the series was released on many records, including as Symphonic Suite Yamato in 1977 and later as collections of background music for the various parts and films, such as Yamato yo Towa ni and Space Battleship Yamato III. In 1985 he wrote the music for the science-fiction film Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight, directed by Toshio Masuda, who had also worked on Yamato.

Influence

Miyagawa wrote orchestral music for animation, with big melodies and a symphonic sound that suits the space adventures. In this way he belongs to the composers who gave Japanese animation a sound of its own. His themes are made to carry stories of space travel, courage and loss, and they stay with the viewer after the film has ended.

Listening

Discography

Studio albums

• 1977Symphonic Suite Yamato (soundtrack)
• 1993スタートリング・オデッセイ (soundtrack)
• 1995Symphonic Suite Yamato
• 1995オリジナルBGMコレクション ヤマトよ永遠に (soundtrack)
• 1995オリジナルBGMコレクション 宇宙戦艦ヤマト 新たなる旅立ち (soundtrack)
• 1995オリジナルBGMコレクション 宇宙戦艦ヤマトIII (soundtrack)
• 1995オリジナルBGMコレクション 宇宙戦艦ヤマトPART1 (soundtrack)
• 1995オリジナルBGMコレクション 宇宙戦艦ヤマトPART2 (soundtrack)
• 1995オリジナルBGMコレクション 宇宙戦艦ヤマト完結編 (soundtrack)
• 1995交響組曲 宇宙戦艦ヤマトIII
• 2001ETERNAL EDITION File No.7「宇宙戦艦ヤマトIII」 (soundtrack)
• 2008宇宙空母ブルーノア (soundtrack)
• 2012ETERNAL EDITION File No.0&1「交響組曲 新 宇宙戦艦ヤマト」＆「宇宙戦艦ヤマト」 (soundtrack)
• 2012ETERNAL EDITION File No.1「宇宙戦艦ヤマト」 (soundtrack)
• 2012ETERNAL EDITION File No.4「宇宙戦艦ヤマト2」 (soundtrack)
• 2012YAMATO SOUND ALMANAC 1978-I 宮川泰の世界〜宇宙戦艦ヤマト〜 (soundtrack)
• 2012YAMATO SOUND ALMANAC 1978-II「さらば宇宙戦艦ヤマト 愛の戦士たち 音楽集」
• 2012YAMATO SOUND ALMANAC 1978-III「さらば宇宙戦艦ヤマト 愛の戦士たち BGM集」
• 2012YAMATO SOUND ALMANAC 1978-IV 「不滅の宇宙戦艦ヤマト ニュー・ディスコ・アレンジ」
• 2012YAMATO SOUND ALMANAC 1979-I 宇宙戦艦ヤマト 新たなる旅立ち 音楽集 (soundtrack)
• 2012YAMATO SOUND ALMANAC 1980-I ヤマトよ永遠に 音楽集 Part1 (soundtrack)
• 2012YAMATO SOUND ALMANAC 1980-II ヤマトよ永遠に 音楽集 Part2 (soundtrack)
• 2013YAMATO SOUND ALMANAC 1980-IV ヤマトよ永遠に BGM集 (soundtrack)
• 2013YAMATO SOUND ALMANAC 1981-II 宇宙戦艦ヤマトIII BGM集 Part1 (soundtrack)
• 2013YAMATO SOUND ALMANAC 1981-III 宇宙戦艦ヤマトIII BGM集 Part2 (soundtrack)
• 2013YAMATO SOUND ALMANAC 1982-I 宇宙戦艦ヤマト ファイナルへ向けての序曲 (soundtrack)
• 2013YAMATO SOUND ALMANAC 1982-II「ギターが奏でるヤマト・ラプソディ」
• 2013YAMATO SOUND ALMANAC 1982-III「ピアノが奏でるヤマト・ラプソディ」
• 2013YAMATO SOUND ALMANAC 1982-IV「バイオリンが奏でるヤマト・ラプソディ」
• 2013YAMATO SOUND ALMANAC 1983-I 宇宙戦艦ヤマト完結編 音楽集 Part1 (soundtrack)
• 2013YAMATO SOUND ALMANAC 1983-II 宇宙戦艦ヤマト完結編 音楽集 Part2 (soundtrack)
• 2013YAMATO SOUND ALMANAC 1983-III 宇宙戦艦ヤマト完結編 音楽集 Part3 (soundtrack)
• 2014YAMATO SOUND ALMANAC 1983-IV 宇宙戦艦ヤマト完結編 BGM集 (soundtrack)
• 2014YAMATO SOUND ALMANAC 1984-I 「交響曲 宇宙戦艦ヤマト ライヴ」
• 2014YAMATO SOUND ALMANAC 1996-I「SOUND FANTASIA SERIES 宇宙戦艦ヤマト」

In School of Rock

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Mentioned in other articles

• Anime GenreHiroshi Miyagawa wrote the orchestral music and the theme song for Uchū Senkan Yamato (1974).

See also

• Anime