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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 ...
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 ...
Japanese extreme metal bands formed in the wake of the American and European wave, but did not get any bigger exposure until the 1990s, and the genre took underground form in Japan. [ citation needed ] The first thrash metal bands formed in the early 1980s, like United , whose music incorporates death metal elements, and Outrage .
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]
Shakuhachi score Myoan-ji fingering chart. Shakuhachi musical notation is a traditional tablature-style method of transcribing shakuhachi music.. A number of systems exist for notating shakuhachi music, most of which are based on the rotsure (ロツレ) and the fuho-u (フホウ) systems.
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.
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 ...
Sankyoku (Japanese: 三曲 / さんきょく) is a form of Japanese chamber music played often with a vocal accompaniment. It is traditionally played on shamisen, koto, and kokyū, but more recently the kokyū has been replaced by shakuhachi. [1]