The Yoshida Brothers lead a wave of musicians whose youthful, inno.docxchristalgrieg
The Yoshida Brothers lead a wave of musicians whose youthful, innovative approach has made a traditional Japanese instrument suddenly hip.
The two young Japanese men seated on stage are each clad in a white silk kimono and red hakama, the skirtlike pants once worn by samurai. In contrast to their traditional outfits, their hair is dyed reddish brown--the current rage among Japanese youth--and one even wears it spiked. Each performer holds an ancient stringed instrument called a shamisen on his knee, and each is thrashing his instrument with a pick the size of his hand.
They've been plucking in unison, but now a gruntlike "huy" uttered by both men simultaneously signals a change. One musician stops playing while the other launches into an intricate, rapid-fire improvisation on the theme of an old Japanese folk song. The result sounds more like jazz than folk music. Another "huy" a few minutes later and the roles are reversed. A few final phrases played together end the song, and the audience erupts into enthusiastic applause. The Yoshida Brothers have just finished a concert at a press event in New York to celebrate the release of their self-titled U.S. debut album.
Siblings Ryoichiro and Kenichi Yoshida play the traditional tsugaru shamisen, a banjolike instrument with three strings. Their music belongs to an instrumental genre likewise called tsugaru shamisen that includes both traditional tunes and contemporary pieces. The Yoshida Brothers' handsome looks, their energetic approach to music, and their mastery of the shamisen have gained them national popularity unprecedented for traditional musicians in Japan. Since their first CD, Ibuki, broke sales records for shamisen recordings in 1999, the Yoshida Brothers have achieved a status in their native land normally reserved for rock stars.
The Yoshida Brothers, now in their midtwenties, first gained success and respect for their dynamic interpretations of traditional songs. Later, they added their own compositions, which often include non-Japanese instruments and mix elements of traditional Japanese music with Western rhythms and arrangements.
Previous players experimented with the sound of tsugaru shamisen in jazz and rock music before the Yoshida Brothers emerged, but it was a televised 1997 New Year's Eve concert by the brothers that brought the modern tsugaru shamisen to Japan's national attention--and made the siblings instant celebrities. The current shamisen boom is clearly attributed to the Yoshida Kyodai, as the Yoshida Brothers are known in Japan.
Kenichi, at age twenty-four the younger of the two brothers, told The World & I: "Up until five years ago, shamisen music was only for people who listened to traditional music. But people who come to the shows nowadays are people who are not so familiar with shamisen music. When playing in concert, it is important to us to let people understand what shamisen is about."
The body, or sound box, of a shamisen (literally meaning three strings) ...
East Asia can be viewed as one of the big four among the generally urban, literate cultural areas of the world. The other three are South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Around each of these major regional cultures one can find many satellite musical systems known as national forms. In most cases, the fundamental musical concepts of such national forms reflect the basic ideals of the cultural core. For example, the musics of Iran and Egypt are of one family, as are those of France and Sweden or of China and Japan. A possible fifth addition to the “big four” concept is the Southeast Asian musical culture characterized by the use of knobbed gongs. Its documents on music theory from the 18th to the 20th century combine South and East Asian concepts with indigenous insights. Its most distinctive aspects are its instrument types and resulting ensembles and forms.
Using instrument type alone as a measure, it is sometimes possible to note cultural influences and mixtures of the major traditions in smaller units. For example, the physical structure and playing positions of various bowed instruments in mainland Southeast Asia can often mark clearly Chinese influence, as in Vietnam, or Muslim and Chinese forms in confluence, as in the various bowed lutes of courtly ensembles in Cambodia and Thailand. By the same token, the appearance of flat gongs in mainland Southeast Asia shows Chinese connections, while the knobbed gongs clearly stem from Southeast Asian culture proper.
Concepts of music
If one turns to distinctions in musical style, one of the first questions to arise is “What is music?” Two basic definitions will suffice for the present discussion. The first definition is cultural: a sonic event can be called music if the people who use it call it music, regardless of one’s own reaction to it. Similarly, certain events that sound musical to foreign ears are not music culturally if they are not accepted as such by native culture carriers. A good example of such a situation is found in the Middle East, where singing is never allowed in the mosque, though one may hear performances and even buy records of “readings” from the Qurʾān. Such cultural and functional problems of definition seldom arise in East Asian music, and a more neutral definition is appropriate. A sound event may be considered and studied as music if it combines the elements of pitch, rhythm, and loudness in such a way that they communicate emotionally, aesthetically, or functionally on the levels that either transcend or are unrelated to speech communication. Those who have been moved by a love song or a lament can well appreciate some of the implications of such a view of music. When listening to “exotic” music—i.e., that of a tradition outside one’s own background—it is important to remember that such transcendental values are at work for the alien listener as well as for listeners familiar with the particular musical language in use.
There are many kinds of music and arts nowss
The five players on each side fall into five playing positions. The tallest player is usually the center, the second-tallest and strongest is the power forward, a slightly shorter but more agile player is the small forward, and the shortest players or the best ball handlers are the shooting guard and the point guard, who implements the coach's game plan by managing the execution of offensive and defensive plays (player positioning). Informally, players may play three-on-three, two-on-two, and one-on-one.
Invented in 1891 by Canadian-American gym teacher James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, basketball has evolved to become one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports.[1][2] The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the most significant professional basketball league in the world in terms of popularity, salaries, talent, and level of competition.[3][4] Outside North America, the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the EuroLeague and the Basketball Champions League Americas. The FIBA Basketball World Cup and Men's Olympic Basketball Tournament are the major international events of the sport and attract top national teams from around the world. Each continent hosts regional competitions for national teams, like EuroBasket and FIBA AmeriCup.
The FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup and Women's Olympic Basketball Tournament feature top national teams from continental championships. The main North American league is the WNBA (NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship is also popular), whereas the strongest European clubs participate in the EuroLeague Women.
The five players on each side fall into five playing positions. The tallest player is usually the center, the second-tallest and strongest is the power forward, a slightly shorter but more agile player is the small forward, and the shortest players or the best ball handlers are the shooting guard and the point guard, who implements the coach's game plan by managing the execution of offensive and defensive plays (player positioning). Informally, players may play three-on-three, two-on-two, and one-on-one.
Invented in 1891 by Canadian-American gym teacher James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, basketball has evolved to become one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports.[1][2] The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the most significant professional basketball league in the world in terms of popularity, salaries, talent, and level of competition.[3][4] Outside North America, the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the EuroLeague and the Basketball Champions League Americas. The FIBA Basketball World Cup and Men's Olympic Basketball Tournament are the major international events of the sport and attract top national teams from around the world. Each continent hosts regional competitions for national teams, like EuroBasket and FIBA AmeriCup.
The Yoshida Brothers lead a wave of musicians whose youthful, inno.docxchristalgrieg
The Yoshida Brothers lead a wave of musicians whose youthful, innovative approach has made a traditional Japanese instrument suddenly hip.
The two young Japanese men seated on stage are each clad in a white silk kimono and red hakama, the skirtlike pants once worn by samurai. In contrast to their traditional outfits, their hair is dyed reddish brown--the current rage among Japanese youth--and one even wears it spiked. Each performer holds an ancient stringed instrument called a shamisen on his knee, and each is thrashing his instrument with a pick the size of his hand.
They've been plucking in unison, but now a gruntlike "huy" uttered by both men simultaneously signals a change. One musician stops playing while the other launches into an intricate, rapid-fire improvisation on the theme of an old Japanese folk song. The result sounds more like jazz than folk music. Another "huy" a few minutes later and the roles are reversed. A few final phrases played together end the song, and the audience erupts into enthusiastic applause. The Yoshida Brothers have just finished a concert at a press event in New York to celebrate the release of their self-titled U.S. debut album.
Siblings Ryoichiro and Kenichi Yoshida play the traditional tsugaru shamisen, a banjolike instrument with three strings. Their music belongs to an instrumental genre likewise called tsugaru shamisen that includes both traditional tunes and contemporary pieces. The Yoshida Brothers' handsome looks, their energetic approach to music, and their mastery of the shamisen have gained them national popularity unprecedented for traditional musicians in Japan. Since their first CD, Ibuki, broke sales records for shamisen recordings in 1999, the Yoshida Brothers have achieved a status in their native land normally reserved for rock stars.
The Yoshida Brothers, now in their midtwenties, first gained success and respect for their dynamic interpretations of traditional songs. Later, they added their own compositions, which often include non-Japanese instruments and mix elements of traditional Japanese music with Western rhythms and arrangements.
Previous players experimented with the sound of tsugaru shamisen in jazz and rock music before the Yoshida Brothers emerged, but it was a televised 1997 New Year's Eve concert by the brothers that brought the modern tsugaru shamisen to Japan's national attention--and made the siblings instant celebrities. The current shamisen boom is clearly attributed to the Yoshida Kyodai, as the Yoshida Brothers are known in Japan.
Kenichi, at age twenty-four the younger of the two brothers, told The World & I: "Up until five years ago, shamisen music was only for people who listened to traditional music. But people who come to the shows nowadays are people who are not so familiar with shamisen music. When playing in concert, it is important to us to let people understand what shamisen is about."
The body, or sound box, of a shamisen (literally meaning three strings) ...
East Asia can be viewed as one of the big four among the generally urban, literate cultural areas of the world. The other three are South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Around each of these major regional cultures one can find many satellite musical systems known as national forms. In most cases, the fundamental musical concepts of such national forms reflect the basic ideals of the cultural core. For example, the musics of Iran and Egypt are of one family, as are those of France and Sweden or of China and Japan. A possible fifth addition to the “big four” concept is the Southeast Asian musical culture characterized by the use of knobbed gongs. Its documents on music theory from the 18th to the 20th century combine South and East Asian concepts with indigenous insights. Its most distinctive aspects are its instrument types and resulting ensembles and forms.
Using instrument type alone as a measure, it is sometimes possible to note cultural influences and mixtures of the major traditions in smaller units. For example, the physical structure and playing positions of various bowed instruments in mainland Southeast Asia can often mark clearly Chinese influence, as in Vietnam, or Muslim and Chinese forms in confluence, as in the various bowed lutes of courtly ensembles in Cambodia and Thailand. By the same token, the appearance of flat gongs in mainland Southeast Asia shows Chinese connections, while the knobbed gongs clearly stem from Southeast Asian culture proper.
Concepts of music
If one turns to distinctions in musical style, one of the first questions to arise is “What is music?” Two basic definitions will suffice for the present discussion. The first definition is cultural: a sonic event can be called music if the people who use it call it music, regardless of one’s own reaction to it. Similarly, certain events that sound musical to foreign ears are not music culturally if they are not accepted as such by native culture carriers. A good example of such a situation is found in the Middle East, where singing is never allowed in the mosque, though one may hear performances and even buy records of “readings” from the Qurʾān. Such cultural and functional problems of definition seldom arise in East Asian music, and a more neutral definition is appropriate. A sound event may be considered and studied as music if it combines the elements of pitch, rhythm, and loudness in such a way that they communicate emotionally, aesthetically, or functionally on the levels that either transcend or are unrelated to speech communication. Those who have been moved by a love song or a lament can well appreciate some of the implications of such a view of music. When listening to “exotic” music—i.e., that of a tradition outside one’s own background—it is important to remember that such transcendental values are at work for the alien listener as well as for listeners familiar with the particular musical language in use.
There are many kinds of music and arts nowss
The five players on each side fall into five playing positions. The tallest player is usually the center, the second-tallest and strongest is the power forward, a slightly shorter but more agile player is the small forward, and the shortest players or the best ball handlers are the shooting guard and the point guard, who implements the coach's game plan by managing the execution of offensive and defensive plays (player positioning). Informally, players may play three-on-three, two-on-two, and one-on-one.
Invented in 1891 by Canadian-American gym teacher James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, basketball has evolved to become one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports.[1][2] The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the most significant professional basketball league in the world in terms of popularity, salaries, talent, and level of competition.[3][4] Outside North America, the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the EuroLeague and the Basketball Champions League Americas. The FIBA Basketball World Cup and Men's Olympic Basketball Tournament are the major international events of the sport and attract top national teams from around the world. Each continent hosts regional competitions for national teams, like EuroBasket and FIBA AmeriCup.
The FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup and Women's Olympic Basketball Tournament feature top national teams from continental championships. The main North American league is the WNBA (NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship is also popular), whereas the strongest European clubs participate in the EuroLeague Women.
The five players on each side fall into five playing positions. The tallest player is usually the center, the second-tallest and strongest is the power forward, a slightly shorter but more agile player is the small forward, and the shortest players or the best ball handlers are the shooting guard and the point guard, who implements the coach's game plan by managing the execution of offensive and defensive plays (player positioning). Informally, players may play three-on-three, two-on-two, and one-on-one.
Invented in 1891 by Canadian-American gym teacher James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, basketball has evolved to become one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports.[1][2] The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the most significant professional basketball league in the world in terms of popularity, salaries, talent, and level of competition.[3][4] Outside North America, the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the EuroLeague and the Basketball Champions League Americas. The FIBA Basketball World Cup and Men's Olympic Basketball Tournament are the major international events of the sport and attract top national teams from around the world. Each continent hosts regional competitions for national teams, like EuroBasket and FIBA AmeriCup.
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2. The word for music in Japanese is
(ongaku), combining the kanji "on" (sound)
with the kanji "gaku" (enjoy).
3. Traditional and folk music
There are two forms of music recognized to be the
oldest forms of traditional Japanese music.
•shōmyō, or Buddhist chanting,
•gagaku or orchestral court music, both of
which date to the Nara and Heian periods.
4. The biwa - Chinese: pipa), a form of short-
necked lute, was played by a group of itinerant
performers (biwa hōshi) who used it to
accompany stories.
The taiko, is a Japanese drum that
comes in various sizes and is used to
play a variety of musical genres.
players were holy men, who played only
at special occasions and in small groups,
but in time secular men (rarely women)
also played the taiko in semi-religious
festivals
5. Japanese folk songs (min'yō) can be grouped and classified in
many ways but it is often convenient to think of four main
categories: work songs religious songs (such as sato kagura, a
form of Shintoist music), songs used for gatherings such as
weddings, funerals, and festivals (matsuri, especially Obon), and
children's songs (warabe uta).
Okinawan folk music Ryukyuan music
Umui, religious songs, shima uta, dance songs,
and, especially kachāshī, lively celebratory music,
were all popular.
6. Arrival of Western music
After the Meiji Restoration introduced Western
musical instruction, a bureaucrat named Izawa
Shuji compiled songs like "Auld Lang Syne"
and commissioned songs using a
pentatonic melody.
Western music, especially military marches,
soon became popular in Japan.
7. Two major forms of music that developed
during this period were shoka, which was
composed to bring western music to schools,
and gunka, which are military marches with
some Japanese elements
8. Western classical music
Western classical music has a strong presence in Japan and the country
is one of the most important markets for this music tradition
Jazz
From the 1930s on (except during World War II, when it
was repressed as music of the enemy)jazz has had a
strong presence in Japan.[
J-Pop
J-pop, an abbreviation for Japanese pop, is a loosely defined musical
genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s
9. Modern J-pop has its roots in
1960s pop and rock music, such as The
Beatles, which led to bands such as Happy
End fusing rock with Japanese music.
Japanese idol musical artists are a significant
part of the music market, with girl
groups and boy bands regularly topping
the singles chart.
10. Other Genres
•Rock
•Punk rock /alternative
•Heavy metal
•Extreme metal
•Hip hop
•Electro pop and club music
•Theme music
•Game music
