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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. 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]

  4. Category:Japanese traditional music - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Japanese traditional music" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *

  5. List of Intangible Cultural Heritage elements in Japan

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    Ojiya-chijimi (小千谷縮) from Ojiya and Echigo-jofu (越後上布) from Echigo are two traditional fabrics woven with fine bast fiber from the ramie plant. Gagaku: 2009 00265: Gagaku (雅楽) is a type of Japanese classical music that was historically used for imperial court music and dances. Yūki-tsumugi, silk fabric production technique ...

  6. Ritsu and ryo scales - Wikipedia

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    The ritsu scales do not fit exactly into the equal temperament prominent in Western classical music but ritsu is transposable to E and B, Ryo is transposable to D and G, and Hanryo hanritsu to A. [7] The Ritsu scale is one of the six scales (along with the major and minor scales, the common pentatonic scale, and the common "blues" scale) that ...

  7. 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.

  8. Min'yō - Wikipedia

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    Min'yō, traditional Japanese folk song, must be distinguished from what the Japanese call fōku songu, from the English phrase 'folk song'. These are Western-style songs, often guitar-accompanied and generally recently composed, of the type associated with Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary and the like, and popular in Japan since the 1960s.

  9. Theatre of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Noh is one of the four major types of Japanese theatre.. Traditional Japanese theatre is among the oldest theatre traditions in the world. Traditional theatre includes Noh, a spiritual drama, and its comic accompaniment kyōgen; kabuki, a dance and music theatrical tradition; bunraku, puppetry; and yose, a spoken drama.