History/Cultural Terms Flashcards
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Geisha
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- ‘person of the arts’
- hired to perform at parties
- gatherings held at tea houses
- trained in arts – song, theatre, poetry, flower arranging, conversation
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bosama
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-blind street minstrels who went door to door
- developed shamisen
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Meiji Restoration
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- 1868-1912
- marked end of samurai class, returned power to emperor and new powerful merchant class, transformation from feudalist to capitalist society
-turned to west for new ideas
-integration of music into military and education systems
-beginning of modern japan - looked outside borders for musical inspiration
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komoso
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- fraternity of beggar minstrels/zen buddhists/masterless samurai
- played shakuhachi
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Kabuki hanamichi
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- passageway extends through audience
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Nara Period
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- 710 - 794 AD.
- first indigenous writings on Japanese music, earliest forms of music began
- shift from clan-based to system to more formalized governmental one
- dynamic period of international influence from China and Korea
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Heian Period
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- 794 - 1185
- began developing local forms of art
- dynamic period
- began assimilating foreign music and developing them into distinct Japanese art forms
- gagaku evolved into separate classes
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syoko
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- idea of Confucianism
- classical idea that related to simple construction of instruments
- old cultures and systems should be respected and not changed
- ancient melodies have inherent beauty
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mono no aware
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- ‘sensitivity to things’
- beauty is found in transience of things
- describes ‘pathos’, type of sadness, longing, or love
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zen
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- principles of self-control
- musicians must exercise principles of self-control and moderation
- Japanese Buddhism
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shinto
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- “way of gods” largest number of followers
- music is represented through range of repertoire called kagura that each have their own distinct function
