MUSIC

authentic Japanese music

• Gagaku

• Shomyo

• Hogaku

“small song”, such folk songs (a cappella)

• Ko-uta

• Shomyo

• Hogaku

“God Music”, music of Shinto

• Hogaku

• Kagura

• Naga-uta

is any set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch

• texture

• scale

• melody

Homophonic means

• a capella

• With chordal accompaniment

• with two or more simultaneous independent melodies