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This page is a timeline of Japanese music and also indexes the individual year in Japanese music pages. 1880s. 1888 - Kimigayo adopted as national anthem; 1890s
The oldest forms of traditional Japanese music are: shōmyō (声明 or 聲明), or Buddhist chanting; gagaku (雅楽), or orchestral court music; both of which date to the Nara (710–794) and Heian (794–1185) periods. [3]
The music of the Nara period can be classified as belonging to the first international period in Japanese music history. [51] The court music was all of Chinese, Korean, or Indian origin and was played primarily by foreign musicians in its original style. [51] Gagaku classical music has been performed at the Imperial court since the Heian ...
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 ...
Gunka (軍歌, lit. ' military song ') is the Japanese term for military music. While in standard use in Japan it applies both to Japanese songs and foreign songs such as "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", as an English language category it refers to songs produced by the Empire of Japan in between roughly 1877 and 1943.
Jiuta, as well as nagauta, is a typical form of Utaimono (歌いもの, lyrical music) in traditional Japanese music. Jiuta traces its oldest origins to shamisen music, and is the predecessor of a number of later shamisen pieces, having greatly influence the development of the genre throughout the Edo period; it can be said that both jōruri ...
Dengaku started as the music and dancing that performed in conjunction with field labor called ta-asobi. [1] This form of rural entertainment evolved during the Heian period in response to diverse social, economic, political, and cultural movements. Two types of dengaku had developed by the latter half of the period. The first was the ...
The music of prehistoric cultures is first firmly dated to c. 40,000 BP of the Upper Paleolithic by evidence of bone flutes, though it remains unclear whether or not the actual origins lie in the earlier Middle Paleolithic period (300,000 to 50,000 BP). There is little known about prehistoric music, with traces mainly limited to some simple ...