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  2. Traditional Japanese music - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Neuroscience of music - Wikipedia

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    The neuroscience of music is the scientific study of brain-based mechanisms involved in the cognitive processes underlying music. These behaviours include music listening , performing , composing , reading, writing, and ancillary activities.

  4. Music of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The oldest forms of traditional Japanese music are: shōmyō (声明 or 聲明), or Buddhist chanting; gagaku (雅楽), or orchestral court music; both of which date to the Nara (710–794) and Heian (794–1185) periods. [3] Gagaku classical music has been performed at the Imperial court since the Heian period. [4]

  5. Gagaku - Wikipedia

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    Gagaku (雅楽, lit. "elegant music") [1] is a type of Japanese classical music that was historically used for imperial court music and dances. Gagaku was developed as court music of the Kyoto Imperial Palace, and its near-current form was established in the Heian period (794–1185) around the 10th century.

  6. List of Intangible Cultural Heritage elements in Japan

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    As part of a country's cultural heritage, they include celebrations, festivals, performances, oral traditions, music, and the making of handicrafts. [1] The "intangible cultural heritage" is defined by the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage , drafted in 2003 [ 2 ] and took effect in 2006. [ 3 ]

  7. Psychology of music - Wikipedia

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    The psychology of music, or music psychology, may be regarded as a branch of psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and/or musicology.It aims to explain and understand musical behaviour and experience, including the processes through which music is perceived, created, responded to, and incorporated into everyday life.

  8. Ritsu and ryo scales - Wikipedia

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    The ritsu scale is the voice of the male phoenix, yang, being, the voice that ascends from above and is inhaled breath, emerging from the ki while the ryo scale is the voice of the female phoenix, yin, nothingness, the voice that ascends from below and is exhaled breath, emerging from the breath; probably indicating that ritsu is vertical and ryo is horizontal.

  9. Jōruri (music) - Wikipedia

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    Jōruri (浄瑠璃) is a form of traditional Japanese narrative music in which a tayū (太夫) sings to the accompaniment of a shamisen. [1] Jōruri accompanies bunraku, traditional Japanese puppet theater. [2] As a form of storytelling, jōruri emphasizes the lyrics and narration rather than the music itself. [3]