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  2. Traditional Japanese music - Wikipedia

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    Musicians and dancer, Muromachi period Traditional Japanese music is the folk or traditional music of Japan. Japan's Ministry of Education classifies hōgaku (邦楽, lit. ' Japanese music ') as a category separate from other traditional forms of music, such as gagaku (court music) or shōmyō (Buddhist chanting), but most ethnomusicologists view hōgaku, in a broad sense, as the form from ...

  3. List of Japanese prefectural songs - Wikipedia

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    Prefecture official song: "Saga kenmin no uta" (佐賀県民の歌, lit. Saga Prefecture people's song) 1974: This song is the second anthem. Lyric: Quasi-prefectural song: "Kaze wa mirai iro" (風はみらい色, lit. The wind is the color of the future) 1993: Lyric: Saga country song: "Sakae no kuni kara" (栄の国から, lit. From Sakae ...

  4. Nagauta - Wikipedia

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    The first reference to nagauta as shamisen music appears in the second volume of Matsu no ha (1703). [1] By the 18th century, the shamisen had become an established instrument in kabuki, when the basic forms and classifications of nagauta crystallized [1] as a combination of different styles stemming from the music popular during the Edo period.

  5. Kakegoe - Wikipedia

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    Kakegoe are used in traditional music ensembles, such as Hayashi, Nagauta, Taiko, and Tsugaru-jamisen.They are used to cue different parts of a musical piece. They can signal anywhere from the beginning or end of a particular rhythm, the beginning or end of an improvisation section for an instrument virtuoso, to cuing different instrument entrances.

  6. Bushi (music) - Wikipedia

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    Bushi (節) is a type of Japanese folk music genre. The Japanese term fushi (節), originally used in Buddhist folk music in Japan, simply means "melody". Like the generic term ondo, bushi, the voiced form of fushi, is used as a suffix for Japanese folk songs. [1] It is found in many Japanese traditional and folk songs, usually shamisen or ...

  7. Ai Oboete Imasu ka - Wikipedia

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    Haruko Momoi covered the song on her 2008 cover album More&More Quality RED ~ Anime Song Cover ~. Megumi Nakajima covered the song as Ranka Lee as the B-side of her 2008 single " Seikan Hikō ". She also recorded an alternate version titled "Ai Oboete Imasu ka ~ Bless the Little Queen" on the 2008 Macross Frontier soundtrack album Macross ...

  8. Kouta (music) - Wikipedia

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    Kouta (小唄, lit. ' little songs ') is a type of traditional Japanese music that originated in the red-light districts of Edo period (1603–1868) Japan, before developing further and experiencing wider popularity in the geisha districts that succeeded many red-light districts.

  9. Ainu folk music - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese government deliberately banned Ainu language, music, and dance (including the bear ceremony) in 1799 in an attempt to homogenize the Ainu with the larger Japanese population. In addition to this, through pressure and in governmental institutions such as schools, [ 13 ] "on every possible occasion the Bakufu persuaded the natives to ...