Chapter 5 Hogaku Performance in Music Japan World Music Questions Download the Japan Study Guide below. This assignment is meant to completed while reading

Chapter 5 Hogaku Performance in Music Japan World Music Questions Download the Japan Study Guide below. This assignment is meant to completed while reading the Japan Chapter in our textbook, Excursions in World Music. Once you have completed the Study Guide, save the document and then upload your saved doc in the submission area for this assignment.

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Name__________________________
Study Guide: Japan
1. _____________________ is the general name for traditional music in Japan.
2. The voice, the _______________, and the __________________ seemed to share basic melody, but
each performed the melody in a somewhat different fashion, rhythmically as well as melodically
resulting in a texture that may be described as _________________.
3. Classify and describe the following primary Japanese instruments:
Koto
Shamisen
Shakuhatchi
4. Since 1652, ________________ has been performed by adult males, as it still is today, and female
roles are impersonated by male actors.
5. Kabuki has borrowed a lot from other types of theater, such as the classical __________ theater and
the puppet theater ________________.
6. Describe some of the interesting features of a kabuki stage. How are these features utilized during a
performance?
7. On-stage musicians in kabuki theater are called degatari. This group is divided functionally into two
separate ensembles, called ___________________ (storytellers) and _________________________
(ensemble specializing in performing long songs).
8. The bunraku puppet, made of wood, is moved by _________ puppeteers who manipulate its arms,
fingers, legs, body, head, eyes, mouth, and even eyebrows with extreme realism.
9. Exclusively an art of the ruling samurai class from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries,
__________, is a performance style of elegant simplicity and restraint with major themes of redemption
of human suffering through the love of _________________.
10. _______________________ is the generic name for Japanese ensembles of flutes and drums.
11. List and describe the instruments used in noh theater:
12. Buddhism came to Japan in the _________ century from ________________________. By this time
it was already a thousand years old and a highly developed religion.
13. Popular koto-and-vocal music of the Edo Period is known under the generic name of
_____________.
14. The common instrumental koto ensemble today is called sankyoku, meaning trio, and consists of
what three instruments?
15. Listen to the sokyoku audio track and describe how the musicians are creating a heterophonic
texture?
16. _____________, meaning elegant or refined music, is the instrumental and choral music and dance
that has been under the continual patronage of the imperial court for more than a thousand years.
Influenced by the ancient music of ___________________________________, it has been carefully
transmitted by generations of court musicians to the present day and is perhaps the
__________________ ensemble music in the world.
17. Gagaku music, like most Japanese music that came after it, was conceived in an aesthetic scheme of
introduction-exposition-denouement known as ___________________________.

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