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Japanese Theater - both are unique and genuine expression of the Japanese spirit and culture |
Noh and Kabuki |
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Noh and kabuki mirror? |
Taste and ideals of different social classes in profoundly different environments and epochs |
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What is one of the popular traditional songs of "Cherry Blossoms"? |
Sakura |
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What is a traditional song that produces distinct characteristics used in Asian style of making melodies? |
Sakura |
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What is the style of making melodies called used in the traditional song "Sakura"? |
Pentatonic Scale |
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What vocal pattern/technique required an extraordinary breath control that only few experts succeed in achieving? |
Ipponchōshi |
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What vocal pattern/technique uses continuous pattern used in speeches building up to an explosive climax in the aragoto style? |
Ipponchōshi |
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This became the most successful theater entertainment in the red light districts of the great cities |
Kabuki |
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Is considered the most important Japanese contribution to World Theater |
Kabuki |
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Is one of the traditions that is very popular until today |
Kabuki |
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The traditional form of theater which began at the end of the __th century |
16 |
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Adopted from chanting or jōruri |
Nori |
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Implies a very sensitive capacity of riding the rhythms of the shamisen (string instrument) declaiming each accompaniment |
Nori |
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What does jōruri mean? |
This is a traditional Japanese narrative music in tayū sings to the accompaniment of a shamisen |
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The subtle delivery of poetical written in the Japanese metrical form of alternating seven and five syllables |
Yakuharai |
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Japan - Dances and movements are accompanied by ___ music collected and popularized a number of aspects from all previous forms of Japanese music |
Shamisen |
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Japanese Shamisen Music - classic court music imported from China during the 18th century |
Gagaku |
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Japanese Shamisen Music - (theater from heaven) literally translated to "god-entertainment" |
Kagura |
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Where is KAGURA performed? |
Shinto shrines |
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Japanese Shamisen Music - chant derived from shōmyō the sophisticated and rich tradition of Buddhist chanting |
NŌ bitch |
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Japanese Shamisen Music - (long song) most popular which reached a golden age in the first half of the 19th century as dance music for the henge mono |
Nagauta |
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What does henge mono mean? |
Quick-change pieces |
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___ is very flexible, can be performed by one shamisen or by an entire orchestra of 20 musicians |
Nagauta |
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Musicians who play in NAGAUTA |
-10 are shamisen players -while other play flutes a. fue taken from the nō b. drums -kotsuzumi (small drum) -ōtsuzumi (waist drum) taiko (stick drum) |
