MUS 185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Oiran, Cronyism, Suizen
30 Sep 2015
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Folk songs, jazz and other genres are played on the instrument. Intermediate pitches are obtained by partially covering holes. Manipulating the breath and vocal tract by fluttering the tongue or using the throat helps to produce sounds in most contemporary pieces. There is a significant relationship between japanese music and nature because it was common to hear music by relating it to sounds of nature such as the humming of insects or the wind in a pine wood. Japanese tend to think that nature and its sounds do not come into conflict with human beings and artificial sounds--specifically music--but that these sounds respond to and blend with each other. Preferences in timbre or tone color and the sense of sound as such indicate the influence of aesthetics and philosophy. They have distinctive tastes in the structure of sound elements and how they distinguish structural flexibility.
