1 / 8

Japanese Music

Japanese Music. 7th Grade Music Technology Eastwood Middle School. Japan. Population: 127,728,000 Capital: Tokyo; 35,327,000 Area:145,902 square miles Language: Japanese Religion: Shinto, Buddhist Currency: yen Life Expectancy: 81 GDP per Capita: U.S. $28,700 Literacy Percent: 99.

lizina
Download Presentation

Japanese Music

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Japanese Music 7th Grade Music Technology Eastwood Middle School

  2. Japan • Population: 127,728,000 • Capital: Tokyo; 35,327,000 • Area:145,902 square miles • Language: Japanese • Religion: Shinto, Buddhist • Currency: yen • Life Expectancy: 81 • GDP per Capita: U.S. $28,700 • Literacy Percent: 99

  3. Japan Info • Country of islands in Pacific Ocean: Honshu, Hokkaido, Shikoku,and Kyushu • Only 18% of the country is inhabitable because 73% of the country is mountainous • Japan was once unopen to foreigners and thus was extremely traditional and isolated; today it is a democracy and has the second largest economy after the U.S. • To the left you see Tokyo the capital of Japan, a very large, modern city

  4. Japanese Music • Vocal music is more important than instrumental in the history of Japanese music • Japanese music developed as part of drama (opera): Noh, Kabukl, and Bunraku • Noh has been performed since the 14th century • By tradition, Noh actors and musicians never rehearse for performances together. Instead, each actor, musician, and choral chanter practices his or her fundamental movements, songs, and dances independently or under the tutelage of a senior member of the school. Thus, the tempo of a given performance is not set by any single performer but established by the interactions of all the performers together • Japanese voices often sound nasal or pinched to Western ears, but your ears open to the new sounds!

  5. Types of Traditional Music: • Gagaku: Ancient court music from China and Korea. It is the oldest type of Japanese, traditional music. • Biwagaku: Music played with the instrument Biwa, a kind of guitar with four strings. • Nogaku: Music played during Noh performances. It basically consists of a chorus, the Hayashi flute, the Tsuzumi drum, and other instruments. • Sokyoku: Music played with the instrument Koto. Later also accompanied by Shamisen and Shakuhachi. The Koto is a zither with 13 strings. • Shakuhachi: Music played with the instrument Shakuhachi, a about 55 cm long flute. The name of the flute is its length expressed in the old Japanese length units. • Shamisenongaku: Music played with the instrument Shamisen, a kind of guitar with only three strings. Kabuki and Bunraku performances are accompanied by the shamisen. • Minyo: Japanese folk songs.

  6. Taiko • Kodo has two meanings: heartbeat and children of the drum; you will watch a documentary on this group that tours the world • This group plays Taiko which is Japanese for drum • The taiko is played with a stick

  7. Styles of Taiko Performance • Multi-drum, multi-player (複式複打法) Two or more drummers play more than one type of Taiko. This style of performance is popular nowadays. It is also referred to as Kumidaiko (組太鼓). • Multi-drum, one player (複式単打法) One drummer plays more than one type of Taiko. • One drum, multi-player (単式複打法) Two or more drummers play only one type of Taiko. • One drum, one player (単式単打法) One drummer plays only one type of Taiko.

  8. Works Cited • http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/worldmusic/view/page.basic/country/content.country/japan_424?fs=travel.nationalgeographic.com • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiko • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Japan • http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2113.html • http://www.kodo.or.jp/news/index_en.html

More Related