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 Japan Nightporter
It also features news updates on the solo careers of the former members of Japan, plus associated musicians such as Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Togawa has no direct connection to Japan or the former members solo careers but she has worked with Hosono and a number of other artists that have worked with Sylvian and co.
The CD is utterly pointless, the packaging is sloppy and full of typos, it completely ignores the fact that Japan were a band, so ultimately, it serves no purpose whatsoever, other than as a purchase for the completist.
http://www.nightporter.co.uk   (2272 words)

  
 Japanese Music
This type of music, along with the roei poems brought from China were made popular during Japan’s feudal period and were enjoyed by the Daimyo.
The origins of Japanese music begin at around 3000 BC during the Jomon Culture, when, according to evidence found at archeological digs, music was first used in ceremonies.
The first music apparently was a result of migrations from China, Korea, and was passed down from the ancient Ainu of Japan.
http://www.bridgewater.edu/~dhuffman/soc306/S98grp1/music.html   (2272 words)

  
 Proposal for a Tripartite Theory
The Reception and Transculturation of Chinese Music in East Asia: with an Emphasis on the Early Histories of Court Music in Japan and Vietnam (in Japanese: with summary in English) Dissertation (Doctor of Literature), Osaka University.
The second new activity for the Vietnamese Court Music Revitalization Plan was the planning of an international symposium on East Asian court-music traditions with the involvement of China, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan -- the first of its kind in the long history of the East Asian court-music traditions.
This form of music is one of the commonalties found in the East Asian court traditions that link China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam in a complex historical network.
http://www.folklife.si.edu/resources/Unesco/yamaguti.htm   (2272 words)

  
 Wesleyan East Asian Music - Courses
This course examines the relationships between music and modernity in China, Japan, and Korea, and the interactions between the impact of Western music and nationalism and contemporary cultural identities.
In particular, it explores the historical significance of the Meiji Restoration on Japanese music tradition, the Japanese influence on Chinese School Songs, the origins of contemporary music in China, Japan, and Korea, the adaptation and preservation of traditional music genres, and the rise of popular music and the music industry.
We will focus on the cultural conflicts encountered by East Asian musicians and composers, and their musical explorations and experiments in searching of national and individual identities in the processes of nation-building and modernization.
http://www.wesleyan.edu/music/eam/courses.html   (2272 words)

  
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Musical instruments are graphic material illustrations of Japan joining the sphere of Far Eastern civilisation and the far greater world of ancient Asian music.
Korean music of the later Yi dynasty (1593-1910) penetrated Japan at about the same time, alongside Ryukyu music, which was akin to South Chinese.
As musicological studies have shown, the court music of those periods—brought together under the term gagaku, “graceful music”—though it took the name of China’s Confucian ritual music of the yayue category (in fact, gagaku is the Japanese pronunciation of the respective Chinese hieroglyphs), really ascended to the suyue, or “banquet music”.
http://www.comitet21.ru/analyth_26.htm   (2272 words)

  
 Keith A
“Japan: Instruments and Instrument Genres.” in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
“Japan: Regional Traditions” in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
“Japan: Music in the Period of Westernization.” in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
http://www.people.iup.edu/rahkonen/ilwm/japan.bib.htm   (1049 words)

  
 Early Japanese Music
This was the style of music for the popular dances and pantomimes of southern China and northern Indochina imported into Japan.
Music theory was housed in an official Imperial department, the gagaku department, that had as its task the formal training of gagaku musicians.
The musical life of the T'ang court was extremely varied and multicultural; a formal set of rules, called the "Ten Styles of Music" governed the hierarchy and use of Chinese and foreign musical styles in court.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCJAPAN/MUSIC.HTM   (1049 words)

  
 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2003
Presentations of his electroacoustic music include concerts at the Seoul International Computer Music Festival, the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, the International Biennial for Electroacoustic Music of Sao Paulo, Keio University in Japan, the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, and several ICMC and SEAMUS conferences.
He is responsible for teaching occasional eight-week CLE seminars on music business and law at Rice, and lectures on these subjects at the Art Institute of Houston as well.
His music was heavily influenced by Edgar Varese, whom Zappa got to call on the phone from California at the age of 15 as a birthday present, as well as Stravinsky, Ives and other major 20
http://music.utsa.edu/electron/nmfnov32003.htm   (3061 words)

  
 Music of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Two major forms of music that developed during this period were shoka, which was composed to bring western music to schools, and gunka, which are military marches with some Japanese elements.
Okinawan folk music is often accompanied by the sanshin whereas in mainland Japan, the shamisen accompanies instead.
Western classical music has a strong presence in Japan and the country is one of the most important markets for classical music.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Japan   (2555 words)

  
 The Far Eastern Audio Review -- Asian Music CD Reviews: Interview: Paul Fisher
What kind of music was in your backpack when you first set off for Japan in 1990?
Their music was based on Japanese chindon, a kind of street music that was used for advertising about 60 years ago and elements of klezmer and Balkan music.
A lot of African music, Latin, some blues, jazz and tapes by including The Clash, Van Morrison or Bob Dylan probably.
http://www.fareastaudio.com/archives/04/10/interview_paul_fisher_by_news.php   (2555 words)

  
 BBC NEWS World Asia-Pacific Country profiles Country profile: Japan
Japan was years ahead of the US and Europe in pioneering "reality TV", in which ordinary people are placed in extraordinary situations.
Japan's relations with its neighbours are still heavily influenced by the legacy of Japanese actions before and during World War II.
Fewer than 25% of Japan's people live in rural areas.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1258586.stm   (858 words)

  
 Music of East Asia
In East Asia, art music remains the most appreciated of all forms of music.
In China, the orientation in art music is more towards the orchestra, towards a timid polyphony, even towards an embryo of harmony.
The same phenomenon is also felt in the old Korean court music, in which the notion of time, through an underlying rhythmic liberty of interpretation, leads to a floating temporal vision that cannot be reduced to measurable diagrams.
http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Arts/music/Worldmusic/meastasia.htm   (1476 words)

  
 BIGpedia - BoA - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online
BoA also appeared in the Korean Music Festival held in the Sydney Opera House on the 21st of June 2004.
She has made strides in music and acting with chartbreaking albums released in both Japanese and Korean as well as being a covermodel for huge companies such as Shiseido, Honda, KDDI: Au, and Calpis.
She has released albums in both Japan and Korea, and her recording company, SM Entertainment, is positioning her as a cross-cultural star for all of Asia.
http://www.bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/BoA   (770 words)

  
 Japan-A-Radio; The internet's fastest growing radio station dedicated to Japanese music since 2001.
We also play music from some of the hottest acts in Japan.
Japan-A-Radio plays music from Japan's top charts, as well as from Anime Soundtracks, Video Game Soundtracks, J-POP albums, and more.
This is only a partial list of artists we play.
http://www.japanaradio.com   (425 words)

  
 The W -- Does Booker inherit the Wolfpac music next Monday?
I think they should just tack on the NWO beginning to Booker's music, just like the did in Japan to Chono and Mutoh's themes.
Anything that would keep highlighting Booker as the outsider (no pun intended) of the nWo would be great, as he is for all rights and purposes a face now.
Well, Booker said that he hated the porno music last night, so Kevin Nash said he would fix that if he and Pac got the win.
http://the-w.com/thread.php/id=3187   (1445 words)

  
 Musical Patterns
The sparseness of music of this type is reminiscent of Gagaku, the court music of Japan.
There is nothing intrinsically unartistic about the use of mathematics in the arts and particularly in music anymore than the use of grammar by a poet is unartistic.
The control of time by rhythm in a regular way is most frequently done by writing music that follows a dance form: the 3/4 rhythm of a waltz or mazurka, a tango, a polonaise, etc. It works and from the viewpoint of composing effort is relatively inexpensive.
http://graham.main.nc.us/~bhammel/MUSIC/compose.html   (1445 words)

  
 Amazing Music Box & Gifts Company - Reuge Music Boxes For Any Occasion
We offer Swiss made "Romance" movements by Reuge and also Sankyo (Japan) musical movements for each music box.
We have a large tune collection of 18 note and selected collection of 36 note movements to beautify your music box.
Now we are offering to our customers Swiss made by Reuge 36-note musical movements.
http://www.amazingmusicbox.com   (445 words)

  
 Various Artists East Asia CD
Throughout East Asia, most music is pentatonic, (a five note scale) so Dr. Crotch had a point, but his observations were generally way off the mark.
Dr William Crotch, a Professor of Music at Oxford, was one of the first European scholars to come into contact with Javanese gamelan around 1817.
Arabic music merges with Indian and other south east Asian influences to form a distinct Malay concoction, performed by one of the young singers currently at the forefront of the Malaysian roots music revival.
http://www.unionsquaremusic.co.uk/title.php?ALBUM_ID=261&LABEL_ID=8   (445 words)

  
 Oberlin College Library - Collection Development Policy - East Asian Studies
To introduce students to East Asian civilizations through courses in several disciplines such as art history, ethnomusicology, history, literature, politics, and religion.
The East Asian Studies Program at Oberlin is an interdisciplinary program with a focus on China and Japan.
The office of the East Asian Specialist-Librarian is located in Mudd 115.
http://www.oberlin.edu/library/colldev/policies/East.html   (445 words)

  
 MUSIC at MANOA - FM-AM Newsletter 1998
While head of the Institute for Ethnomusicology at Koln, he built up the library and audiovisual archive with materials from East Asia, especially Japan, the largest such repository outside of that country.
He was educated at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the Mozarteum in Austria, the East-West Center at UH, Toho Gakuen in Japan, and the University of Illinois.
Dennis Kam is Chair of the Music and Composition Department at the University of Miami.
http://www.hawaii.edu/uhmmusic/FM-AM/fmam1998.htm   (5960 words)

  
 Music/East Asian Studies 228a:
We’ll examine traditional and popular musics of South Asia (North and South Indian traditions), Central Asia (chiefly the music of the Islamic courts of Uzbekistan), Indonesia (Javanese and Balinese ensemble musics), Japan (chiefly art traditions and dramatic musics), and China (especially musical developments before, during, and after the Maoist period).
Historical and social survey of chief genres of Japanese art music (gaguku, noh, narrative forms, bunraku, kabuki, instrumental genres).
This course considers music and its place in various Asian cultures, considering principles of melody, rhythm, form, performance, as well as the ways in which music serves as a vehicle for self-expression or as a part of a system of social, ethnic, or gender differences.
http://www.haverford.edu/musc/faculty/freedman/228.htm   (5960 words)

  
 facts JPN-music
For the purpose of promoting musical education, a music re search institute (the Ongaku-torishirabe sho) was established in 1880 and musical textbooks, which combined Western and Japanese styles of music, were published for the first time.
The first significant development in the history of Japanese music took place in the Heian Period (794-1192 A.D), While Japanese music which had been popular among common people was being sophisticated, all kinds of music from various Asian countries In the previous two centuries were being assimilated and modified, acquiring distinct Japanese characteristics.
As for the education of professional musicians, the Tokyo Music School (which succeeded the Ongaku-torishirabe-sho and became the Music Department of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1949) was established in 1887.
http://menic.utexas.edu/asnic/countries/japan/japmusic.html   (5960 words)

  
 String Instrument Music
Japanese music Japanese music, the highly eclectic musical culture of the Japanese islands.
VARIOUS The Rough Guide to the Music of Central Asia World Music Network 1129 For those of us in the West, Central Asia is perhaps one of the last...
Over the years, Japan has borrowed musical instruments, scales, and styles from many neighboring areas.
http://string-instruments-now.info/.../string-instrument-music.html   (5960 words)

  
 Pusanweb Recreation Guide - Busan, Korea
Korean traditional music is usually divided basically into two groups: classical or court music, jeongak, for the upper echelons of society, and folk music, minsogak, for the common people.
King Sejong enjoyed Confucian shrine music for Confucian ceremonies and also for entertaining in the royal court.
During the Koryo period, Buddhist painting became popular and later with the influence of Christian missionaries Korean painting took on features of landscapes and scenes from everyday life.
http://pusanweb.com/culture/arts/artsmain.htm   (5960 words)

  
 Kotoko Music - Favorite Songs - Lyrics From
from his heartfelt love of music and learning, his worldwide travels...
in the seven-year history of the Ghana Music Awards, a performing group from East Africa has been...
KOTOKO (Horikawa) was born in the northern part of Japan, Hokkaido on January 19, 1980.
http://www.lyricsfrom.com/artists/k/Kotoko.html   (1412 words)

  
 GraylandOct2003.doc
(Bryant-WA) 639 JAPAN Oita, JOIP 1251 10-4 Japanese comedian //594 poor in KFI QRM (bp) 639 AUSTRALIA Katherine, 8RN 1436 3 Oct world music mention //2485, poor to fair.
(Bryant-WA) 891 JAPAN Sendai, JOHK, 0910 10-5 talk & music //594, poor in KBBI-890 QRM.
Not as consistently heard as in the past - Japan was often dominant at various rechecks (bp) 1053 JAPAN Nagoya, JOAR 1523 10-4 still there w/man & woman in Japanese, no sign of jammer (bp) 1062 CHINA Zhujiang 1356 4 Oct CC talk by man, fair; this is the only listing.
http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/GraylandOct2003.doc   (7071 words)

  
 Joyce - Music: Roger Reynolds' Biography
His music is nourished by the Western tradition, also by those of Asia (where he lived in Japan for extended periods of time, supported by the Institute of Current World Affairs, an organization dedicated to the growth of international understanding), and by literature and the visual arts as well.
Reynolds is Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego, where, in 1972, he became founding director of the Center for Music Experiment (now the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts).
He was educated in music and science at the University of Michigan.
http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/music/reynolds_bio.html   (923 words)

  
 World Music Network Catalogue: Asia & Middle East
'Red Ribbon' is an exciting new collaboration building links and exploring the relationships between Japanese and Chinese musics as represented by the evocative flute of Guo Yue and dynamic percussion of Joji Hirota.
This has been felt in the UK where one of the most exciting forms of music to emerge in the last decade, Asian Underground, is a world of tabla-driven beats, Indian classical samples and frenetic drum’n’bass, trip-hop and techno.
He continues to be idolised in his home country of Pakistan, across the Asian diaspora and succeeded in taking his music to a huge Western audience.
http://www.worldmusic.net/catalogue/asia.html   (923 words)

  
 Asian Studies Spring 2005
These are some of the guiding questions we shall examine through a study of specific musical genres and detailed readings of selected issues.
In this course we will pay particular attention to dimensions of sight and sound (music and visual culture) in addition to the religious teachings and ethics of these traditions.
East Asia constitutes a vast region in the world, consisting primarily of China, Japan, and Korea.
http://www.asianstudies.emory.edu/atlass05.htm   (923 words)

  
 Various Artists East Asia CD
Or Okinawa, where North and South East Asia have mingled for centuries creating a unique culture in an island atmosphere that even the industrial power of the Japanese or the American military can't destroy.
Throughout East Asia, most music is pentatonic, (a five note scale) so Dr. Crotch had a point, but his observations were generally way off the mark.
Dr William Crotch, a Professor of Music at Oxford, was one of the first European scholars to come into contact with Javanese gamelan around 1817.
http://www.unionsquaremusic.co.uk/title.php?ALBUM_ID=261&LABEL_ID=8   (1717 words)

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