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Japanese Traditional Music

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The traditional music of Japan: court gagaku, the theatre musics of noh, kabuki and bunraku, narrative singing to shamisen or biwa, shakuhachi and koto repertoire, taiko drumming and the regional folk songs of min'yō.

Japan · emerged 8th century · peak Edo period

Also called: hōgaku, 邦楽

History

Court and Buddhist music arrived from China and Korea in the eighth century; the Edo period produced the shamisen genres and theatre musics, and the twentieth century added folk-song revival and ensemble taiko.

What it sounds like

Beneath it: heikyoku, jōruri, kagura, kouta, kumi-daiko, min'yō, nagauta, noh, rōkyoku, shinkyoku, tsugaru-jamisen, upopo

Beside it: gagaku, japanese classical

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