Teiji Ito

About the artist

Teiji Ito (伊藤貞司, surname Ito; b. Tokyo, Japan, 1935; d. Haiti, 1982) was a Japanese composer and performer. He is best known for his scores for the avant-garde films by Maya Deren. Ito was born in Tokyo in 1935, into a theatrical family. His father, Yuji Ito, was a composer and costume designer, and his mother, Teiko Ono, was a dancer who worked in both traditional and classical genres. Ito moved with his family to New York at the age of six.

Top songs

  1. Overture
  2. Japanese Flute
  3. Death of Queen
  4. Steel Drum
  5. Teiji's Song
  6. Mennon's Song
  7. Maya's Song
  8. Debraining Machine
  9. Meshes Of The Afternoon
  10. Sarabande
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  1. Hurrah for War
  2. Nightmare
  3. Button Song
  4. Tsar's Music
  5. Congo
  6. Bear Music
  7. Music Box
  8. Beer Barrel Polka
  9. Polish Anthem
  10. Storm
  11. Mama Ubu's Dance
  12. Plotting
  13. Tea for Two/Seduction
  14. Aloha
  15. Crypt/Congo
  16. The Very Eye Of Night
  17. Axis Mundi
  18. Moonplay
  19. Lights Along the Way - India
  20. Arabesque for Kenneth Anger
  21. Dwightiana
  22. Water Music Study
  23. Lights Along The Way - Java/korea
  24. Lights Along the Way - China
  25. Bagatelle for Willard Maas
  26. Spring
  27. Summer
  28. Running
  29. Handwritten
  30. Orgia
  31. Tenno ii
  32. Works of Matisse
  33. Tenno i
  34. Lifelines
  35. Tenno - i
  36. Meshes of the Afternoon (1959)
  37. Autumn
  38. Arabesque For Kenneth Anger (1961)
  39. Moonplay (1961)
  40. I
  41. Tenno - ii
  42. Dwightiana (1959)
  43. Bagatelle For Willard Maas (1961)
  44. Water Music Study (1967)
  45. Tenno iv
  46. the very eye of night (1952)
  47. Tenno iii
  48. Lights Along The Way-India
  49. Operation Hourglass-Diesel Engine (1956)
  50. Lifelines (1960)
  51. Tenno vi
  52. Tenno - iii
  53. II
  54. Orgia (1967)
  55. Quetzalcoatl II: Toltec Flute Medley
  56. Tenno v
  57. Tenno - iv
  58. Works Of Matisse (1959)
  59. IV
  60. III
  61. Maeva: III: True Love Found
  62. Maeva: II: Return To Tahiti
  63. Handwritten (1959)
  64. Tenno - vi
  65. V
  66. Tenno - v
  67. The Language Of Faces (1961) Part 1
  68. The Language Of Faces (1961) Part 2
  69. VI
  70. Lights Along The Way-China
  71. Maeva I - Search For Love/rape Scene
  72. Quetzalcoatl III: The Story Of Quetzalcoatl
  73. Maeva II - Return to Tahiti
  74. Maeva III - True Love Found
  75. Maeva: I: Search For Love/Rape Scene
  76. Quetzalcoatl I: Opening Chant / Gemstones
  77. The Language of Faces II
  78. The Language of Faces I
  79. Prelude/introduction
  80. Operation Hourglass
  81. Operation Hourglass - Diesel Engine
  82. Prelude - Introduction
  83. Quetzalcoatl IV: Travel Song / A Great White Eagle
  84. Tea For Two / Seduction
  85. Lights Along the Way - India (1959)
  86. Crypt / Congo
  87. Winter/epilogue
  88. Quetzalcoatl - I - Opening Chant/Gemstones
  89. Maeva: I Search for Love/Rape Scene
  90. Lights Along The Way-Java/Korea

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