6. z
Japanese vocal music is quite
different from the Western vocal
music:
1.Based on the intervals of human
breathing rather than mathematical
timing
7. z
2. How Japanese musicians show
their spiritual self-mastery in
mastering his or her instrument
more than simply perfecting a
technique of some sort and how
they give value to their
performance and composure.
8. z
Traditional Japanese music is basically
meditative in character. Its performance is
highly ritualized, as much in the music
itself, as in the composure of the
musicians when performing it. Japanese
chamber and solo music have a slow
meditative pace.
9. z
Japanese music
traditionally been of a spiritual character,
similarly to martial arts and other forms
of art such as the ; tea ceremony and
calligraphy.
It is usually about religious festivals,
work, dance, love, and regional songs.
11. z
Odaiko ( big drum)
The physical energy and
sheer excitement of an
odaiko performances is
an integral part of many
Japanese matsuri
(festival)
12. z
Tsuzumi (hourglass- shape)
There are two varieties; the
(smaller) kotsuzumi is held
on the right shoulder and the
player alters the tone by
squeezing the laces. The
(bigger) otsuzumi isplaced
on theleft thigh.
19. z
Koto
It isplucked using picks onthethumband
first two fingers of the right hand, while the
lefthand can be used tomodify pitch and
tone. Koto is used in an ensemble in
gagaku orasa solo instrument.
20. z
SHAMISEN
Is a plucked stringed instrument. Its
constructional follows a model similar to
guitar or a banjo, employing a neck, and
string stretched across a resonating body.
The neck of shamines is fretless, and is
slimmer that that a guitar or banjo.
24. z
SHAKUHACHI
the most famous flute
made frombamboo. It has
4 or 5 finger holes on the
front face and a
thumbhole on the rear
face.
25. z
NOKAN
a parallel, bamboo flute is
theonly melodicinstrument
usedinnoh.The melody of
the flute has no specific
pitch relationship with the
melodyof thechanting.
26. z
HICHIRIKI
- is a double reed
Japanese flute used as one
of two main melodic
instruments in Japanese
gagaku music, the other
beingtheryūteki.
27. z
SHO
is a Japanese free reed
musical instrument that
was introduced from
China during the Nara
period.
28. z
SHO
also called takebue (in
the context of Japanese
traditional arts) is a
Japanese transversefluteor
fuethathasa high- pitched
sound.
based on the intervals of human breathing rather than mathematical timing, and how Japanese musicians show their spiritual self-mastery in mastering his or her instrument more than simply perfecting a technique of some sort and how they give value to their performance and composure.