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Music Handout
SECOND GRADING
Traditional Japanese music may
LESSON 1: MUSIC OF CHINA
be classified into SHINTO (MUSIC
China, officially the OF WORSHIP).
People’s Republic of China, is a The Shinto Music may be
country located in East Asia. The classified into:
modern word “China” is most
likely derived from the name of 1. Kagura- It is used on formal
the Qin (pronounced “chin”) occasions at shrines or imperial
dynasty. It is the world’s most functions at Shinto folk festivals.
popolous country. The people of
China call their nation Chung-Hua,
2. Shomyo (Buddhist chants)- It is
and its capital is Beijing. China is
written in one of three languages:
also known as the “Flowery
Sanskrit, Chinese or Japanese.
Kingdom” and many of the fruits
and flowers (such as orange and
the orchid) that originated in this
country are now grown all over
the world.
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
The State of Japan or Nihon or
Chinese court music is called Nippon is an island nation in the Pacific
Yayue, which measn “elegant Ocean of East Asia. Located in the Pacific
music” Yayue may be classified Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of
into: Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea,
and Russia.
1.T’angKo or chamber song
which is performed inside the
The word for music in Japanese is
hall.
ongaku, “on” meaning sound and “gaku”
2. Yiieh-hsuan or chime music meaning music. Traditional music of
which is performed in the Japan is rich and varied. Most of its
garden fronting the halls where musical forms were imported from China
rituals are done. but were reshaped into Japanese styles.