"Ifukube" redirects here. For Emperor Monmu's maid of honor, see Ifukibe no Tokotari.
Akira Ifukube
伊福部 昭
Ifukube in 1954
Background information
Born
(1914-05-31)31 May 1914[1] Kushiro, Hokkaido, Empire of Japan[1]
Died
8 February 2006(2006-02-08) (aged 91) Tokyo, Japan
Genres
Classical, film scores
Occupation(s)
Musician, Composer, educator
Years active
1935-2006
Spouse(s)
Ai Yuzaki (dancer)
Website
akiraifukube.org
Musical artist
Akira Ifukube (伊福部 昭, Ifukube Akira, 31 May 1914 – 8 February 2006) was a Japanese composer. He is best known for composing several entries in the Godzilla franchise as well as developing the titular monster's roar.
AkiraIfukube (伊福部 昭, IfukubeAkira, 31 May 1914 – 8 February 2006) was a Japanese composer. He is best known for composing several entries in the Godzilla...
to Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaidō. In 1933, Hayasaka and AkiraIfukube organized the New Music League, which held a new music festival the...
Tokyo College of Music under AkiraIfukube and Sei Ikeno. He is also an apprentice of the famed Godzilla composer, AkiraIfukube. He is married to Inuyasha...
tone of Akira". However, Desplat paid homage to Ifukube during the track "Godzilla!" by flaring the brass to reflect sounds similar to Ifukube's themes...
Minawa, who sought to replicate the "contrabass technique" composer AkiraIfukube used for Godzilla. He layered it with a sped up human voice. The sound...
studied composition with Kunihiko Hashimoto, Kan'ichi Shimofusa and AkiraIfukube at the Tokyo Music School. He was one of the members of Sannin no kai...
recycles several AkiraIfukube tracks. Anno had decided to use Ifukube's music while writing the screenplay and attempted to adapt the old Ifukube tracks to...
specialists has inspired composers in different fields; for example, in 1980, AkiraIfukube, a classical and film composer best known for the Godzilla's theme,...
(transcribed in several comics as Skreeeonk!), which was created by composer AkiraIfukube, who produced the sound by rubbing a pine tar-resin-coated glove along...
the use of action figures. A CD of theme music, mostly composed by AkiraIfukube, was released in 1997 by Polygram entitled 'Welcome To Godzilla Island'...
Tsuburaya. Composer Akira Ifukube was offered to score the film but respectfully declined. At the time, it was rumored that Ifukube refused to participate...
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