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1. Kabuki and Noh are traditional forms of Japanese theater that developed in the 16th-17th centuries and remain popular today. 2. Both forms use a pentatonic vocal scale and unique patterns adapted from other Japanese musical traditions like Buddhist chanting and shamisen music. 3. Shamisen music in Kabuki and Noh performances incorporates elements from different genres including court, shrine, and love songs, and can be performed by solo shamisen or full orchestra.

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1. Kabuki and Noh are traditional forms of Japanese theater that developed in the 16th-17th centuries and remain popular today. 2. Both forms use a pentatonic vocal scale and unique patterns adapted from other Japanese musical traditions like Buddhist chanting and shamisen music. 3. Shamisen music in Kabuki and Noh performances incorporates elements from different genres including court, shrine, and love songs, and can be performed by solo shamisen or full orchestra.

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Unit 4 – Musical Theater and Festivals of Asia

JAPANESE
THEATER
Japanese
Theater
KABUKI
Japanese • is one of the traditions that is very
Theater popular until today
• is the traditional form of theater
which began at the end of the 16th
century
• became the most successful
theater entertainment in the red
light districts of the great cities
KABUKI
Japanese • is considered the most important
Theater Japanese contribution to World
Theater
NOH & KABUKI
Japanese • Both noh and kabuki are unique
Theater and genuine expressions of the
Japanese spirit and culture.
• However, they mirror taste and
ideals of different social classes, in
profoundly different environments
and periods.
SAKURA
•
PENTATONIC SCALE
Japanese • The pattern is mainly developed by
Theater using the pentatonic style adopted
mainly from China.
• This style is mostly used in the
performance of noh and kabuki.
Vocal
Pattern &
Techniques
1. Ipponchōshi
Vocal • or the continuous pattern
Pattern & used in speeches building up to an
Techniques
•
explosive climax in the aragoto
(oversized, supernatural, rough
hero) style
• requires an extraordinary breath
control that only few experts
succeed in achieving
2. Nori
Vocal • adapted from the chanting of jōruri (a
Pattern & traditional Japanese narrative music in
Techniques which a tayū (太夫) sings to the
accompaniment of a shamisen)
• implies a very sensitive capacity of
riding the rhythms of the shamisen
(string instrument), declaiming each
accompaniment
3. Yakuharai
Vocal
Pattern & • the subtle delivery of poetical
Techniques text written in the Japanese
metrical form of alternating
seven and five syllables
Vocal &
Instrumental
Features
Dances and Movements
Vocal &
Instrumental • are accompanied by
Features shamisen music collected and
popularized a number of
aspects from all previous
forms of Japanese music
Japanese Shamisen Music
Vocal & • Gagaku – classic court music
Instrumental
Features imported from China during the
th
18 century
• Kagura – performed in Shinto
shrines
• Nō – chant derives from shōmyō,
the sophisticated and rich tradition
of Buddhist chanting
Japanese Shamisen Music
Vocal & Nagauta
Instrumental
Features • is a love song which reached a
golden age in the first half of the
19th century as dance music for
the hengemono (quick-change
piece)
Japanese Shamisen Music
Vocal & Nagauta
Instrumental
Features • is very flexible, can be performed by one
shamisen or by an entire orchestra of 20
musicians

10 are shamisen players
 while other play flutes
a. fue taken from the nō
b. drums (small drum-kotsuzumi; waist
drum-ōtsuzumi; stick drum-taiko)

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