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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. Glossary of Japanese theater - Wikipedia

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    The kanji 八, meaning 'eight', is written within the triple square. Print by Utagawa Kunimasa, 1796. Mon Family crests or emblems (紋) used on costumes and props in kabuki to identify characters' social status and family affiliations. Monogatari a literary form in traditional Japanese literature; an extended narrative tale comparable to epic ...

  4. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  5. Tombola (game) - Wikipedia

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    Tombola (/ t ɒ m ˈ b oʊ l ə / tom-BOH-lə, Italian:) is a lottery-style board game which originated in Southern Italy. A variation of the game is a popular form of raffle in the UK and elsewhere around the world.

  6. Music of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Okinawan folk music differs from mainland Japanese folk music in several ways. Okinawan folk music is often accompanied by the sanshin , whereas in mainland Japan the shamisen accompanies instead. Other Okinawan instruments include the sanba (which produce a clicking sound similar to that of castanets ), taiko and a sharp finger whistle called ...

  7. Tombola - Wikipedia

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    Tombola or variants may refer to: Tombola (game), a lottery-type game originating in Italy; Tombola (bingo company), a UK-based online gaming company; Tómbola, 1961 Spanish musical film with child singer and actress Marisol; Tómbola, an American Spanish-language entertainment-news TV show

  8. Japanese musical scales - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Ryūkōka - Wikipedia

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    ' 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] Therefore, imayō, which was promoted by Emperor Go-Shirakawa in the Heian period, was a kind of ryūkōka. [3]