Transcript borja japanese music

BORJA SANCHEZ 3ºB
SITUATION ON MAP
• Situated continent, the Japanese
archipelago is bounded on the N by the
Sea of Okhotsk, on the E and S by the
Pacific Ocean, on the SW by the East
China Sea, and on the W by the Sea of
Japan / East Sea.
off the eastern edge of the Asian
SIZE OF JAPAN
• The total area of Japan is 377,835 sq km
(145,883 sq mi). Comparatively, the area
occupied by Japan is slightly smaller than
the state of California. It extends 3,008
km (1,869 mi) NE – SW and 1,645 km
(1,022 mi) SE – NW and has a total
coastline of 29,751 km (18,486 mi).
POPULATION AND CAPITAL
• Japan's population is over 126 million. Most
Japanese reside in densely populated urban
areas. Japan's capital city is Tokyo. The
population of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area
including the city, some of its suburbs and the
surrounding area is approximately 12 million.
YEN
THE JAPANESE MONEY
• The Japanese yen is the
official currency of Japan. It is
the third most-traded currency
in the foreign exchange
market after United States
dollar and the euro.
The oldest forms of traditional Japanese
music are shōmyō Buddhist chanting, and
gagaku orchestral court music.
• Shōmyō is a style of
Japanese Buddhist
chant, used mainly
in the Tendai and
Shingon sects.There
are two styles:
ryokyoku and
rikkyoku, described
as difficult and easy
to remember,
respectively.
INSTUMENTS OF SHOMYO
• In early Japan, Bhuddist chants,
called "sutra," were done for a wide
variety of occasions. They were, by
683, commonly accompanied
by percussion instrumetns (cymbals,
drums, gongs, handbells) and pipes.
The sutra formed the foundation of a
later genre of vocal music, called
shomyo.
The vocal element of noh theater
originated from shomyo. All singing
done in noh is chanted based on the
patterns which were created by
shomyo. The instruments used to
accompany the chants include flutes,
three types of drums (hanging, hip,
and shoulder), and the drummers’
shouts. (“Japanese Music” 2004).
GAGAKU
Gagaku (, literally "elegant music") is a type of
Japanese classical music for several centuries. It
consists of three primary repertoires:
1. Native Shinto religious music and folk songs and
dance, called kuniburi no utamai
2. A Goguryeo and Manchurian form, called
komagaku (named for Koma, one of the Three
Kingdoms)
3. A Chinese and South Asia form (specifically Tan
Dynasty), called togaku.
Gagaku, like shomyo, employs the Yo scale, a
pentatonic scale with ascending intervals of two,
three, two, and two semitones between the five
scale tones.
INSTUMENTS OF GAGAKU
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HEIKE BIWA
The biwa is used in Gagaku and there are many old
pieces imported from China of a legendary
sensitivity, but such pieces have not been
transmitted and can only be imagined. However, in
the Kamakura Period, a new form of narrative
music appeared, played by blind musicians in the
guise of priests.
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TSURI-DAIKO
One generic term for the many styles of drums in
Japan is daiko , a broad range of cylindrically
shaped instruments that have a drum head either
tacked on directly to the body or attached by ropes
or cords.The tsuri-daiko, also known as a "hanging
drum", is a shallow, round instrument often
suspended in a circular wooden or metal frame with
an upright stand. The wood or metal stand is
heavily lacquered and carved, and often has a
beautiful flame ornament made from brass. In
Chinese, this ornament is called the kwa-yen .
EXAMPLE OF GAGAKU MUSIC