Music 316: MUSIC CULTURES OF THE WORLD - ASIA Prof. Ter Ellingson 28D Music 543-7211 [email protected] T.A. Brent Bianchi 28 DMusic 543-7019 [email protected] Winter 2006 10:30-11:20 Monday-Friday (Thursday sections vary) Music Room 213 CD 2: EAST ASIA - KOREA AND JAPAN

Korea

1 AJENG SANJO: Sanjo, instrumental improvisation in 4 movements, beginning slow 0:00 and becoming faster, triple meter (24 to 6 beats per cycle). Played on the Ajeng, a

7-string zither bowed with a wooden stick. Performed by Han Ilsup, accompanied on Changgo hourglass drum by Sin Kwaedong. Ajeng (Korean Social and Folk Music A: 2)

2 CONFUCIAN ORCHESTRA: Court orchestra playing ancient Chinese Confucian ritual music, A-ak.

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 11:50 orchestral pieces. Orchestra includes instruments used only 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 chant, Shōmyō, "Shichi Bongo" 20:00 or "Song of the Four Wisdoms." Sung in Sanskrit by Arai Kōjun.

Music Cultures 316 - Asia CD 2 Ellingson 2 Text: Om  Vajra sattva sangr āha Pronounced: Om Ba(n) dza ra sa to ba(n) so ngya ra ka Vajra ratnam  anuttaram  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 (Notation on separate handout.) (E/I Tape) 5 SHIKA NO TŌNE: Program music for the vertical bamboo 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. Shakuhachi (Music of the Edo Period B: 4)

6 ROKUDAN: Music in 6 (roku) sections (dan), part of Danmono 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. 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-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) Shamisen

Taiko (left), ko-tsuzumi (bottom), ō-tsuzumi (top right) Drums, and Fue Flute B Modernized "popular" orchestral arrangement by Hachidai Nakamura with Western instruments. 42:10 Rainy Night in Tokyo B: 1