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gagaku

Traditional court and religious music of Japan. It first appeared in Japan as an import from Korea in the 5th century AD and had become established at court by the 8th century. Though little notation from before the 12th century survives, a mostly later body of music continues to be performed at Shinto ceremonies. Gagaku employs transverse flute (ryuteki), double-reed pipe (hichiriki), mouth organ (sho), gong (shoko), drums, and stringed instruments including the biwa (see pipa) and koto. It may accompany dance (bugaku) or be played independently (kangen); it is further classified either as togaku, the so-called music of the left (which included Chinese and Indian materials), or as komagaku, the music of the right (including Korean examples). (The terms left and right were derived from the Confucian-based administration system of the capital during the Heian period.)

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Japan also saw 13 additions, many of them folk dances and processions, from an annual float-ceremony in Kyoto to a seventh-century rice harvest ritual from Akiu in the north or the oldest of Japan's performing arts called Gagaku.

China, Japan honoured by UNESCO heritage board by AFP / AFP Global Edition

I told Seymour that I didn't think music had to go anywhere and that I was interested in stasis such as the gamuts (constellations of pitches in which given identities are repeated at the same octave placement) found in the music of Webern, Nono, and Stockhausen and in the restricted sets of pitches in modal music such as gagaku and Indian classical music.

Music of the spheres: Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) by Artforum International

Attending the conference was also an amazing cultural experience, with the Japanese Nurses Association (JNA) spoiling us with traditional Gagaku music and dancing on the opening night, and even a dinner visit from Empress Michiko, followed by several dance groups made up of JNA members.

New network for student nurses: NZNO student leaders help launch the ... by Witehira, Tracy / Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand