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Tokugawa/Edo
1600-1867, a time when japan's boarders were closed to outsiders
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Japanese Soundscape
Music from all over. Music always playing everywhere
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Unique Characteristics of Japanese Traditional Music
- unpitched sounds and variety of timbres
- beatless, flexability of pulse in solo and ensemble music
- The Heterophonic treatment of voices in an ensemble
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Shakuhachi
- Bamboo flute. 54 cm long, 4 holes infront and 1 in back
- tones ranging from pure to breathy
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Samurai
The Warrior class, highest warrior class
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Ronin
Masterless Samurai (released lower class Samurai) not allowed to change status from samurai but some did
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Komuso
- group of ronin who took religius orders.
- "Emptiness Monks"
- Buddist monks wondering the country side playing shakuhachi and begging.
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Hoki
- Shakuhachi's name by buddist
- "spiritual tool"
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Suizen
- "Blowing Zen"
- shakuhachi being played, to reach enlightenment
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Ma
- "space""Interval"
- Linked to both Rhythms and Zen playing Shakuhachi
- overall timing, relationship, between sound and silence
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koto
zither. 1.8 meters long with 13 strings made of silk orig. but now made of nylon. Played by Women because it used to mean good breeding.
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Shamisen
- 3 string long neck lute
- used to convey emotion and drama
- used in theaters and to accompany Kouta
- Played with a plectrum
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Kouta
- short song 1-3 min
- Evokes the imagination
- Linked to women in japanese culture
- O-Yo was the first composer
- Poetic
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iemoto
the guild system used to teach and exerts in fluence over traditional art practices and controls the quality of performances and performer
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Geisha
- Kouta linked here and to city Edo and tea houses
- Female entertainment that were educated, talented and could carry on a conversation
- Kouta displayed romantic or erotic themes
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Matsuri-bayashi
- music performed at a matsuri or shinto festival to make god spiits happy and bless the city for the next year.
- flute drums gong. Everyone plays everything but they are ametures
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karaoke
- Empty orchestra
- allows anyone to sing there favorite song to an orchestra
- Important to japans social and buisness life
- relieves stress and inspires oneness
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Gagaku
- Court music
- Elegant music
- from china
- accompanies hihly stylized dance
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In Scale
- Semi tones in pentatonic scale
- Koto and Shamisen
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Yo Scale
- No semitones in a pentitonic scale
- Folk Songs
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