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| the space between Japanese notes |
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| Principle Japanese religion |
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| four principle types of Japanese modes |
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| Ancient orchestral and court music of Japan |
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| introductory movement of Japanese gagaku |
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| exposition of Japanese gagaku |
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| concluding movement of Japanese gagaku |
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Japanese puppet theater
master puppeteer and two assistants dressed in black move to create one puppet's movements |
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| Japanese well know, stylized theater, reserved action, unfolds slowly, use of drum language with percussive vocals, apeals to upper-classes |
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| Japanese secular style theater, more relaxed, elaborate, spectacle, dances & combines elements of many theaters apeals to lower classes, concludes with fight scene |
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| Japanese vertically played bamboo flute |
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| Japanese musical ensemble that accompanies "noh" dramas, 3 drums, 1 flute |
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| Japanese cylindrical drum |
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| Japanese, large, vertically suspended bass drum with elaborately painted drum head. (gagaku orchestra) |
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| Japanese 4 stringed, fretted, pear-shaped lute, held horizontally. Loose strings rattle against the neck. (gagaku orchestra) |
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Japanese dances within gagaku
(steps/prescribed movements) |
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| Japanese fretless lute played for puppet theater, with large plectrum, resonator covered with cat skin, 3 strings |
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| Japanese 13 stringed, curved resonator, zither with large inverted "V" shaped bridges, played with 3 finger plectrum and bending stings |
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| elements of Japanese music |
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| slow tempo, sense of space, prominent classical solo repertories, melody driven music, pentatonic |
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| constant Japanese phrases (similar to Indian tala) each has 26 metrical units of 4 beats, divided in 2 |
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| 3 styles of singing in bunraku pupet theater |
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| Lyrical Declamatory Halfspoken/half sung |
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| Japanese religion of awareness, sect of Buddhism, respecting the ma, up the mountain of enlightenment back to earth again. |
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| Kakegoe drumming style from noh theater |
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| beats that alternate with shouts by same player |
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| drumming tradition revival, 1971, origional group |
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| three types of singing in Japanese bunraku |
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| lyrical, declamatory, half spoken/half sung (most common) |
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