How are you?
Following the last week, I am going
to start my 32nd lecture.
I had conducted music lectures at
Art Collage JANG in Seoul, South Korea every Saturday from March 2015 to
December 2017.
I am going to introduce some of the
music in the lecture with a brief overview of the lecture by the lecture’s
order every Saturday.
Please refer to the following link
for my previous lectures.
The 32nd lecture for today is
"World Music: Japan".
This lecture was the 32nd lecture
of “ACJ Music Academy”, which was held on 5 December 2015.
Early Japanese music development
was made under the influence of China, Korea, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia.
In particular, the facts that many
musicians went to Japan from the Korean peninsula in 453 AD and the Buddhism was
introduced to Japan in the 7th century were very important events in the
history of Japanese music.
Due to such events, the court music
"Gagaku" and the Buddhist music "Shomyo" began to develop from
this period in Japan.
In the early history of Japan, Gagaku
and Shomyo were developed, and the general art genres such as "Noh'' were developed
during the period up to 1500, when Japan's shogunate was established.
During this period, samurai and
monks had a great influence on Japanese music, and the music of monks who sang
with the accompaniment of Biwa, a Japanese lute instrument that came from Central
Asia through the Silk Road, was developed.
Since the period from 1500 to 1868
was the period of Japan's Sakoku policy, the musical influence of the outside
world was negligible, but the commercial activities of merchants became more
active, and "Shamisen'' music, reflecting the sophisticated urban culture, gradually
appeared.
During the Edo period, various
types of folk songs were developed, mainly singing labor and love, in line with
shamisen, drums, and flutes.
Kabuki, one of Japan's three
classic plays, appeared in the early 17th century, and was developed into a
more lively and friendly pop music form by combining Noh's narrative stories
and recitals with shamisen, flute and drums.
Kabuki has become one of Japan's
leading traditional arts since the Second World War through the international
performances in Europe, Asia and the United States.
Shamisen, one of the traditional
Japanese musical instruments, is a string instrument in which Chinese instrument, "Erhu”, of two strings was transformed into three strings after entering Japan
through Okinawa.
Shamisen, which means “three
flavored strings,” has three lines of different thickness.
It has now become an accompaniment
instrument for most of Japan's traditional music and one of the most popular
instruments in Japan.
Today, I will introduce 3 music as
follows:
1. Hanayagi-Ensemble
Nipponia
2. Kabuki
3. Rising-Yoshida
Brothers
You can listen to all the songs
from following YouTube link.
Next week, I will lecture
"World Music: Korea" as my 33rd lecture.
Thank you.
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