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| | Music of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Outside of Japan, the country's music has an image closely tied to its pop music, which is generally bubblegum songs with Japanese lyrics and often incomprehensible English refrains. | | | Westernized pop music is called kayōkyoku, which is said to have begun with "Kachūsha no uta" (1914; see 1914 in music). | | | Umui, religious songs, shima uta, dance songs, and, especially katcharsee, lively celebratory music, were all popular. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_music
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| | Music 4 Games |
| | For each title, there may be 2 or even 3 music soundtrack album releases: the original music used in the game, fully orchestrated arrangements and interpretations of its music, and perhaps a solo piano concerto album of the game's music. | | | Imagine, a music management company who have 9 composers ranging from songwriters to classical arranger/composers, have provided music for many game titles, notably Sega's 2.5 million seller "Sakura Wars", and have also supplied music for TV and Film versions of the "Pokemon" series. | | | Composer of "Final Fantasy" music from day one has been Nobuo Uematsu, and his lyrical, melodic, music has become synonymous with the characterisations within the game. |
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http://www.music4games.net/f_turningjapanese.html
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| | The Rough Guide to The Music of Japan - - Penguin Group (USA) |
| | The Rough Guide to the Music of Japan, is the first ever release to showcase the huge variety of Japanese traditional and roots music. | | | Musics unknown even to most Japanese are also included, such as the beautiful sound of the Ainu, the native Japanese who occupy the northern island of Hokkaido, and the rapping banana salesmen of Kyushu, the southern island. | | | Cicala Mvta play their brass band music with all the verve and energy to match any Balkan Wedding band. |
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http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_1858284872,00.html
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| | Music in Japan |
| | The Birth of Japanese Pop Music, or Kayokyoku//New Music and After//Western Classical Music in Japan | | | The earliest extant description of Shinto music, or kagura (music of the gods), is preserved in the myth of the sun goddess Amaterasu, who, having been offended by her brother, has hidden her light in the Rock-Cave of Heaven. | | | The Meiji government, with the intention of modernizing Japanese music, introduced the Western music instruction in schools, and in 1879, Izawa Shuji, a government bureaucrat who had studied in the United States, commissioned songs which were written using a pentatonic melody derived by exclusion of a major fourth and seventh. |
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http://www.sg.emb-japan.go.jp/JapanAccess/music.htm
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| | Pitchfork: Improvised Music from Japan 2001-2002 |
| | Improvised Music from Japan 2002-2003 is printed in Japanese and English, and features essays, interviews, and concert and CD reviews, and probably most importantly, photos to prove this music was made by and for other human beings. | | | Improvised Music from Japan was a set of sounds so ridiculously vibrant and, yes, chaotic, that it almost seemed irresponsible to lay them on an unsuspecting passerby. | | | It sounded like the music playing as you discover man, time and space are one giant matrix across which we're able to travel as easily as stepping out of bed. |
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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/watw/03-02/improvised-music-from-japan.shtml
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| | Classical Music and the Concert Halls of Japan |
| | Throughout Japan, instruction in Western classical music is a continuing process which begins at the compulsory-education level and continues on to the level of the colleges and the schools of music. | | | Music festivals are held regularly, of which the best known is the Pacific Music Festival founded in 1990 by the late Leonard Bernstein to foster international understanding through music. | | | Hildegard Behrens' concert tour of Japan in March 1999 with world-renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa and the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra gives us occasion to ponder the elevated status of western classical music in Japan and to appreciate the genuine universality of music. |
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http://www.ffaire.com/japan/japanmusicmain.html
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| | Modern Japan - Entertainment - Popular Music |
| | Think about it - Sony Music Entertainment is one of the biggest record companies in the world; Yamaha is the largest manufacturer of musical instruments in the world; Japan has the sixth-largest population in the world; the music industry generates billions and billions of dollars worldwide every year. | | | Ereki (electric) guitar music was the in sound of what became known as the Group Sounds phenomenon. | | | The Japanese homepage of Komuro Tetsuya's music empire. |
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http://www.japan-zone.com/modern/pop.shtml
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| | Music in Japan |
| | A variety of types of music are popular in Japan, from traditional Japanese music to American pop music. | | | The second type of music is a vocal music used in Buddhist services. | | | This type of music is called Shomyo; it provided a significant source for later Japanese vocal music. |
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http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/music/japan.shtml
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| | Music From Japan |
| | Founded in 1975 by current Artistic Director Naoyuki Miura, Music From Japan continues to preside as the leading presenter of Japanese contemporary and traditional music in the United States and the world. | | | For more than 30 years, Music From Japan has championed wider knowledge about and appreciation of Japanese music and composers, which the West has generally had little opportunity to enjoy. | | | The Tomodachi contribution and ticket order form is available from Music From Japan. |
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http://www.musicfromjapan.org
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| | japanese folk music |
| | Seventh-century Japanese diligently studied Asian music and in 701 an office of music... | | | instrumental music in the history of Japanese music. | | | All types of music are enjoyed in Japan today from traditional Japanese music to contemporary American Jazz. |
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http://www.spectrumunited.ca/japanese-folk-music.html
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| | Music of Japan Today 2003 |
| | Concerned with reflecting philosophical and musical elements from their own culture, they began to discover and develop their “own music.” The music of these artists reflects a new global confluence of multiple cultures - a powerful cross-fertilization of aesthetics and musical characteristics from both East and West. | | | Tokuhide Niimi, who has received international recognition for works that span musical genres from ballet, to choral, to orchestral and chamber music, to music for traditional Japanese instruments. | | | RUCKUS (the contemporary music ensemble at UMBC), faculty and students of the UMBC Department of Music, and guest musicians from the Baltimore/Washington DC area and other international new music centers. |
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http://home.sprintmail.com/~emrichards/MFJ2003.html
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| | Japan and Okinawa on RootsWorld |
| | They have language, culture, and music that is distinctly their own. | | | They are the ABBA of Japan in some ways, heavily produced and synthesized, covering many different genres from show band to folk rock. | | | Nenes are four women from Okinawa, under the musical tutelage of one of Okinawa's most respected elder musician, Sadao China, and they have the voices of the heavens. |
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http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/feature/japan.html
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| | Traditional Japanese Music |
| | Lullaby For The Moon: Japanese Music For Koto And Shakuhachi | | | Music played with the instrument Biwa, a kind of guitar with four strings. | | | It is the oldest type of Japanese, traditional music. |
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http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2113.html
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| | Japan: album reviews and ratings |
| | "Japan's low-key, sensual approach to music is a mixture of instrument-produced synthetics and voice as pure sound. | | | A collection of Japan songs taken form their first three albums. | | | Different mixes of songs taken from the first three Japan albums. |
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http://www.musicfolio.com/modernrock/japan.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Japan - Rough Guide to the Music of Japan: Music |
| | This introduction to japanese music is both varied and an amazing insight to the culture of japanese music. | | | Among the Japanese music proper featured is Oki's mixture of Japanese and Ainu culture, the jazz-rock of Takio Ito & Takio Band and Yukihiro Goto's biwa (a teardrop-shaped lute). | | | I have listened to this recording, and I want to review it. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000IJQM
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| | Welcome to Mp3DownloadHQ.com |
| | File sharing has enabled music fans from around the world to build the largest library of recorded music in history. | | | You can, for example, legally download music from over 850 bands and over 20,000 live concerts as well as access to multiple software titles and games. | | | Get access to the largest collection of music from all over the world in every style and every category, from country to techno passing from classical to latino music. |
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http://music.unitedarchive.com
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| | samurai.fm new music radio Tokyo, Japan & London |
| | Whether friendly yard breaks in the burbs or roof music in the urbans, this sound is of the street where all tribes are free. | | | A continual focus on the music, the production and the design have given the label a reputation for it's constant stream of quality releases with the deep musical appreciation of the two founders Miho and Ryo the driving force behind the organisation. | | | Motech Records, through its music, as well as through its mission of providing a voice for the under-represented, will continue to expose the world to the sounds and beliefs of the working class producer and DJ. |
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http://www.samurai.fm/home
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| | Browse by Label: IMPROVISED MUSIC FROM JAPAN (JAPAN) |
| | Tanaka was a member of Otomo Yoshihide's Ground-Zero in 1996-'97, and she is currently involved in a number of fields, ranging from contemporary classical music to free improvisation to avant-garde theater. | | | Known as a brilliant student of Kang Tae Hwan, the pioneer of the Korean improvised music scene, Park was formerly a member of Kang's band. | | | This album is the complete recording of a concert they gave during that tour, at Aku Aku in Tsukuba. |
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http://www.forcedexposure.com/labels/improvised.music.from.japan.japan.html
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| | Cuban Music |
| | Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music 1925-1960 Cristobal Diaz-Ayala | | | With strong roots in West African Yoruba religious music, Cuba's highly syncopated, potent, percussion-rich music has spawned much of what is today's salsa and Latin jazz and greatly influenced musics all over the world. | | | Information about Afro-Latin music, DJs, live bands, radio shows, newsletters, reviews, and track listings. |
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http://www.afrocubaweb.com/music.html
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| | independent music scene in Japan - my findings |
| | will be a wonderful asset to artists wanting to have their music heard and sold around the world and for music fans wanting to hear them. | | | In America, the music scene is all a-buzz about Apple iTunes, Rhapsody/Napster subscriptions, and the digital future of music. |
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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6954
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| | Podcast Music Japan |
| | i-dep’s music is playful, fun, and easy to relax to; their tunes are made to make you feel happy and carefree. | | | With a new album in the works, and a SXSW showcase, this hard-working band (over 100 gigs a year) means business in 2005. | | | This song "Tonight,the Night" released on January 22, 2003 was produced by Tore Johansson and BONNIE PINK. |
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http://www.voiceblog.jp/pcmj
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| | Music of Japan Today: Tradition & Innovation |
| | The Resource Center for Japanese Music [Music From Japan, NY] holds a database on about 400 composers and over 2300 musical works. | | | It is only in the last forty years that some Japanese composers have become more individualistic; concerned with reflecting philosophical and musical elements from their own culture, they have begun to discover and develop their own music. | | | The most successful of this music represents a powerful cross-fertilization of aesthetics and musical characteristics from both East and West. |
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http://home.sprintmail.com/~emrichards/musjapan.html
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| | iTunes Music Store Japan Launched - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) |
| | SonyBMG Music, one of Australia's two biggest record labels, is still locked in negotiations with Apple over the launch of iTMS in Australia, delaying the release of the service in Australia. | | | Protracted negotiations preventing the launch of Apple's iTunes Music Store in Australia are costing the music industry dearly by creating music pirates who may never return to buying music even after Apple's store appears, PricewaterhouseCoopers warned yesterday. | | | You listen to the radio to learn about new songs. |
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http://www.tuaw.com/2005/08/03/itunes-music-store-japan-launched
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| | Amazon.com: Rough Guide: The Music of Japan: Music: Various Artists |
| | This cd is one of the best cd's of Japanese music that I have ever seen. | | | This guide to Japanese music sidesteps the obvious shakuachis, kodo drums, and No theater music in favor of taiko-rap, ondo-funk, Okinawa-pop, and some forms yet to be hyphenated, let alone explained. | | | Fuzzy electric blues meets Okinawa in the music of An-Chang Project, fronted by the emotive vocals of Yasuba Jun. The set has it all, great, good, bad, and awful in pretty equal amounts, but for the good and great alone it's worth the price, and the bad and awful are certainly enlightening and entertaining. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000IJQM?v=glance
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| | Apple Launches iTunes Music Store in Japan |
| | This is a new generation, and people enjoy listening to music from all over the world. | | | Apple today launched its revolutionary iTunes Music Store in Japan, giving music fans the same innovative features, breakthrough pricing, seamless integration with iPod and groundbreaking personal use rights that have made iTunes the number one online music service in the world. | | | It is possible for us with a US iTunes Music Store account to purchase music from Japan iTunes Music Store? |
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http://digg.com/apple/Apple_Launches_iTunes_Music_Store_in_Japan
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| | Music in Japan |
| | College Chart Top 10: Non-Japanese Music by Mnet (Japanese) | | | College Chart Top 10: Japanese Music by Mnet (Japanese) | | | Hot and Cool Music Chart by Tokyo FM (Japanese) |
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http://www.library.pitt.edu/subject_guides/eastasian/ealib/html/jmusic.htm
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| | MacNN Apple sells one million songs through iTunes Japan |
| | Apple today announced it has sold more than one million songs from the iTunes Music Store in Japan. | | | They knew/know, and a million songs in a week isn't going to magically make them think they were wrong. | | | They probably easily made 10 times that in CD sales in the same time period. |
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http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/08/07/itunes.japan.hits.1m.songs
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| | Links to sites outside Cuba |
| | Also a number of audio files of AfroCuban music. | | | Lots of info on Cuban music in the Bay Area. | | | Dedicated to Cuban music, to casino which is Cuba's salsa |
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http://www.afrocubaweb.com/links.htm
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| | Adult Contemporary Music In Japan |
| | From late 70's to the present, a great deal of Adult Contemporary Music which includes A.O.R, West Coast Pop and some Contemporary Jazz Music (Fusion Music) albums have been released. | | | In the process of releasing many albums, Masterpieces which I believe should deserve to be called have been released. | | | A.O.R (Adult Oriented Rock) / Fusion Music PAGE |
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http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~takeito/fusion.html
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| | Beatles Sheet Music - Japan |
| | Two bars (bars 30 and 31) of the bassline during the guitar jam The End have been accidentally inverted. | | | The song plays closer to the key of B Major. | | | Well done except for the usual repeated verses or chorus bass line variations not transcribed, most notably on Something, Maxwell's Silver Hammer and She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (you have to look in Hansen's Abbey Road: Matching Music Book for Easy Guitar / Guitar Combos for that. |
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http://www.rarebeatles.com/sheetmu/jpn/jpnsheet.htm
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| | Improvised Music from Japan |
| | Improvised Music from Japan 2005 (book + 2 CDs) (new) | | | Katsura Yamauchi/Michel Doneda - La Drache (To be released on February 26, 2006) | | | The copyright for all material on this Web site is held by Yoshiyuki Suzuki and the contributors. |
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http://www.japanimprov.com
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| | Music of Japan |
| | Japan owes its music, as its culture in general, to the Chinese. | | | Not only have the Japanese actively developed this heritage, but they have also preserved many elements of older Chinese music which have been lost in its home country. | | | The most important instrument of Japanese art-music is the Koto, the Japanese variety of the Chinese ch’in. |
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http://www.asianideas.com/asianideas/musicofjapan.html
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| | Asian Music: China, Japan, Korea |
| | An innovative site about New Age music in Japan. | | | Ethnomusicologist Josef Bomback discusses the styles and instruments of Chinese music. | | | An interview with this award-winning young Pipa virtuoso who lives and breathes Chinese classical music. |
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http://www.insideworldmusic.com/cs/asian1.htm
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| | The Resource Center for Japanese Music - Composers |
| | The Resource Center for Japanese Music - Composers | | | Fractal,1988 The Miroku Effect,1987 Threnody to Toki,1979 To the companion star of Sirius,1974 Trombone Concerto "Orion Machine",1993 U-Getsu-Fu,1980 While an angel falls into a doze,0 White Landscapes,0 |
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http://www.musicfromjapan.org/resources/mfjc40.htm
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| | Find in a Library: Koto music of Japan |
| | Find in a Library: Koto music of Japan | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. |
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http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/97701104be0645f4a19afeb4da09e526.html
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| | Japan Music |
| | Help build the largest human-contributed music project online | | | Music » Bands and Artists » J » Japan | | | Submit Information - Open Music Project - Become an Editor |
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http://www.music.infotut.com/Bands_and_Artists/J/Japan
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| | Sesame Street - Big Bird in Japan: Read Reviews, Compare & Prices at NexTag.com |
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http://www.nextag.com/sony-music-japan/search-html
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| | Music in Japan |
| | Welcome to the companion page for Music in Japan, by Bonnie C. Wade. | | | Designed by educational consultant C. Victor Fung to reinforce concepts and enhance the study of Japanese music, this manual includes activities and assignments, projects and worksheets for in-class use, overhead transparencies, and sample quiz questions. | | | Please send comments or suggestions about this Website to webmaster@oup-usa.org |
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http://www.us.oup.com/us/companion.websites/0195144880/?view=usa
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| | Tokyo-Blues: A Guide to Blues Music in Japan & Overseas |
| | Tokyo-Blues: A Guide to Blues Music in Japan & Overseas | | | Buddy Guy, Corey Harris, John Hammond, North Mississippi Allstars, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Little Joe Washington, The Crusaders, and the Queen of Motown herself, Dianna Ross, all to play Japan in 2005. | | | Not Otis Rush, not Magic Slim and not Hubert Sumlin, not even the young blues-rock upstart Eric Sardinas. |
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http://www.tokyo-blues.com
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| | Gagaku: Court Music of Japan |
| | Performances by the Imperial Court Orchestra in Tokyo illustrate the contrasting styles of Gagaku instrumental music and of Bugaku dances, filmed in historic settings. | | | GAGAKU: The Court Music of Japan allows the viewer to experience the haunting sounds of the Japanese court orchestra and to see the magnificent costumes and masks of its stately dances. | | | Host for the program is Dr. William P. Malm, Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan, who introduces the instruments of Gagaku and the musicians who play them. |
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http://www.ou.edu/earlymusic/gagaku.html
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| | Cowabunga — Surf Music in Japan |
| | Yellow Jacket (official Japanese Ventures site) — Find out why the Ventures are big in Japan. | | | To submit a link, click here to send e-mail to: |
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http://www.zptduda.com/cowabunga/japan.htm
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