HIDDEN TEXT; CD revised Su 2011 Music 316: MUSIC CULTURES OF THE WORLD - ASIA

Prof. Ter Ellingson 28D Music 543-7211 [email protected]

Class Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/ellingsn/Music_Cultures_of_the_World-Asia Su 2012.html

CD 2: EAST ASIA - KOREA AND JAPAN

Korea 1 KAYAGUM SANJO: Sanjo, instrumental improvisation in 4 movements, beginning slow and becoming faster, triple meter (24 to 6 beats per cycle). Played on the Kayagum/Gayageum, a 12-string zither plucked with the fingers. Performed by Choi Moon-Jin, accompanied on Changgo hourglass drum by Peter Park. (E/I Recording)

2 CONFUCIAN ORCHESTRA: Court orchestra playing ancient Chinese Confucian ritual music, A-ak. Tracks 4-5 stone & bell chimes; 6-8 intro, Wine Offering, ending

A Demonstration of the scale (7-tone or heptatonic in 12 half steps) by 16-piece sets of 8:10 stone chimes and bronze bells (see Chinese Instruments handout for pictures).

B "First Wine Offering" by full orchestra, including above instruments plus: 9:00 globular flute (ocarina), cross-blown flute, vertical notched flute, smaller notched flute, barrel drums, clay jar struck with split bamboo stick, wooden box with hammer stuck through hole in lid, used to start pieces; wooden "tiger" with serrated back rubbed with stick, used to stop pieces; director's clapper of wooden strips that clash together; 6- string and 12-string plucked zithers. (Korean Court Music A: 2) Wooden box and hammer

Japan

3 ETENRAKU: court orchestra playing "Etenraku", one of the oldest Kangen, Tracks 9-10 11:50 orchestral pieces without dance. Orchestra includes instruments used in music of the Left (L), music of the Right (R), and Kangen (K): shō bamboo free-reed mouth organ (L), oboes (LR), ryūteki large (L) and koma-bue small (R) cross-blown flutes, kakko small barrel drum (L), san-no-tsuzumi hourglass drum (R), large frame drum (LR), shōko metal gong (LR), gaku-sō (special type of ; see Example 6 below) 13-string plucked zither (LK), lute (LK) similar to Chinese p'i p'a (CD 1, Example 3). Only instruments of the Left (L) are used in this example (Gagaku A: 2)

4 SHŌMYŌ: Japanese Buddhist tone-contour melodic vocalization, Shōmyō, "Shichi 20:00 Bongo" or "Song of the Four Wisdoms." Sung in Sanskrit by Arai Kōjun.

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Text: Oṁ Vajra sattva saṁgrāha Pronounced: Om Ba(n) dza ra sa to ba(n) so ngya ra ka Vajra ratnaṁ anuttaraṁ Ba(n) dza ra ra ta(n) no - m a do ta ram Vajra dharma gāyanā Ba(n) dza ra tara ma kya ya tai Vajra karmakaro bhava Ba(n) dza ra kyara ma kya ro ham ba

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5 SHIKA NO TŌNE: Program music for the vertical bamboo Tracks 13-14 25:30 notched flute. "Shika no Tōne", music depicting deer calling one another in the distance, composed in the early 18th century. Played by Haruhiko Nōtomi and Tatsuya Araki. (Music of the Edo Period B: 4) Shakuhachi

6 ROKUDAN: Music in 6 (roku) sections (dan), part of Danmono Tracks 15-16 33:00 instrumental solo repertoire of music for the 13-string Koto plucked zither. Composed by Yatsuhashi Kengyō, 17th century. Played by Kinichi Nakanoshima.

Koto (MEP B: 5) 7 ECHIGO JISHI: "Lion Dance of Echigo Province", composed in 1811. Tracks 17-18 A Classical Naga-uta or Long Song used in the accompaniment of dances in the 39:00 Kabuki drama. Instruments: , 3-stringed plucked lute based on Chinese prototype originally imported from Central Asia; Fue cross-blown bamboo flute, 3 drums: ko- Shamisen tsuzumi, small hourglass drum; ō -tsuzumi, large hourglass drum (like san-no-tsuzumi in Gagaku, Example 1, but played holding on shoulder, striking with hand instead of stick); taiko drum (like shorter, wider version of kakko in Ex. 1, but played face-up in stand rather than horizontally on floor). (MEP A: 1)

Taiko (left), ko-tsuzumi (bottom), ō-tsuzumi (top right) Drums, and Fue Flute

Track 19 B Modernized "popular" orchestral arrangement by Hachidai Nakamura with Western instruments. 42:10 Rainy Night in Tokyo B: 1

Music Cultures 316 - Asia CD 2 HIDDEN TEXT Ellingson 4 Tracks not on CD:

8 Chiyo Okumura, Sexiest Voice in Japan

8 Vivaldi, Four Seasons, New Koto Ensemble

8 RED BUDDHA THEATRE: "What a Way to Live in Modern Times," rock-jazz fusion piece by Stomu Yamashta. Red Buddha Theatre