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Classical music in Japan (13 C, 3 P) Japanese country music (1 C) E. Enka (3 C, 1 P) Eurobeat (2 C, 4 P) F. Japanese folk music (6 C, 13 P) G. ... Footwork (genre ...
Another recognized music form from Japan is noise music, also known as Japanoise when referring to noise music made by Japanese artists. Some of the most prominent representatives of this form include Merzbow, Masonna, Hanatarash, and The Gerogerigegege. As befits the challenging nature of the music, some noise music performers have become ...
Musicians and dancer, Muromachi period Traditional Japanese music is the folk or traditional music of Japan. Japan's Ministry of Education classifies hōgaku (邦楽, lit. ' Japanese music ') as a category separate from other traditional forms of music, such as gagaku (court music) or shōmyō (Buddhist chanting), but most ethnomusicologists view hōgaku, in a broad sense, as the form from ...
Enka (演歌) is a Japanese music genre considered to resemble traditional Japanese music stylistically. Modern enka, however, is a relatively recent musical form which adopts a more traditional musical style in its vocalism than ryūkōka music, popular during the prewar years.
A variety of musical scales are used in traditional Japanese music. While the Chinese Shí-èr-lǜ has influenced Japanese music since the Heian period, in practice Japanese traditional music is often based on pentatonic (five tone) or heptatonic (seven tone) scales. [1] In some instances, harmonic minor is used, while the melodic minor is ...
Ryūkōka (流行 歌, lit. ' popular song ') is a Japanese musical genre. [1] The term originally denoted any kind of "popular music" in Japanese, and is the sinic reading of hayariuta, used for commercial music of Edo Period. [2]
Tsugaru-jamisen (津軽三味線, つがるじゃみせん) or Tsugaru-shamisen (つがるしゃみせん) refers to both the Japanese genre of shamisen music originating from Tsugaru Peninsula in present-day Aomori Prefecture and the instrument it is performed with. It is performed throughout Japan, though associations with the Tsugaru remain ...
Yōkyoku (謡曲), also called utai (謡), is a part of the traditional Noh theatre in Japan. The name refers to the vocal section of the music associated with classical Noh drama. Yōkyoku is sung by the chorus and rarely by the other actors.