Background Information
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For each of the songs on these CDs, people are credited in four roles:
- 作曲
- Means “composition/setting (of music)” according to the Unihan database. I refer to this role as “composer”.
- 作詞
- Means “song making” according to the Unihan database, in the sense of writing words to a song. I refer to this role as “lyricist”.
- 編曲
- Means “arrangement” according to the Unihan database. I refer to this role as “arranger”.
- うた
- Means “singer” according to the Unihan database, and I refer to it as such.
Not all songs have an arranger, and of course, instrumental songs don’t have a lyricist or singer. Some songs have several people in a given role.