dressing room; green room; backstage; behind the scenes; the inside; inside affairs
Ming-era Chinese music (popularized in Japan during the early 17th century)
concert band (as a school activity); wind ensemble
gagaku; ceremonial Japanese court music
ritual music and dancing in shrines and temples; rice dance; rice festival; tofu (or fish, etc.) baked and coated with miso; turning something in the manner one would use to cook dengaku-tofu on both sides
wind music; wind instrument music
light music; popular music
music; gagaku; ceremonial Japanese court music
Western music; European music
sarugaku (form of theatre popular in Japan during the 11th to 14th centuries); (arch.) noh; (arch.) fooling around
conservatory; conservatoire; music academy; music school; college of music
music school; music academy; conservatory
orchestra member; musician
place where music lessons are given; music class; music school
music for strings; string music
singing and dancing; song and dance
the world of music; the music world
symphonic music; symphony
Japanese music (esp. traditional Japanese music)
bugaku; court dance and music
music industry; music business
gigaku (genre of masked drama-dance performance)
dressing room; green room; backstage; inside story; confidential talk; hidden circumstances
Music Department (part of the Board of Ceremonies of the Imperial Household Agency)
music theory; musical theory
college of music; school of music; music college
theme; motif; melodic subject
outdoor concert hall; band shell; bandstand
program music; programme music
music director; musical director
Japanese music (esp. traditional Japanese music)
celebrated musician; master musician
philharmonic society; society of the friends of music
compositional rules; musical grammar
wind instrument orchestra; wind band; brass band
piece of instrumental music
modern music; contemporary music
Indian song and dance (introduced to Japan by the Chams in approx. 736 CE)
shoptalk; matters incomprehensible to outsiders; inside joke; private joke
government office in charge of court music (ritsuryō period)
professional dengaku performer (usu. appearing as a monk)
Ancient Chinese banquet music
Tang-era Chinese music; tōgaku; style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance
online music distribution
form of ancient Chinese entertainment similar to a circus (brought to Japan during the Nara period)
music of the classical period
inside story; confidential talk
mask worn by a bugaku dancer
gagaku training place (Heian era); place for playing instruments
church music; sacred music
popular music; common people's music (as opposed to court music)
skewered pieces of tofu baked and coated with miso
music performed by women; women who performed court Bugaku music and dance
Music Bureau (Han dynasty; government office responsible for collecting folk songs); yuefu (genre of Chinese poetry composed in a folk song style)
Kunitachi College of Music
Japan Society for Contemporary Music; JSCM
(online) music distribution service; music streaming service
Ming and Qing-era Chinese music (as popularized in Japan before the First Sino-Japanese war)
new music; shingaku (post-Tang dynasty gagaku piece)
Qing-era Chinese music (popularized in Japan during the early 19th century)
skewered fish (or vegetables, etc.) coated with miso and cooked
taros flavoured with miso and grilled on skewers; parent-child incest
Elisabeth University of Music
Japan Association of Music Enterprises
Musicological Society of Japan; MSJ
Jeunesses Musicales du Japan
Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition; JSMPC
National Music Publishers' Association; NMPA
Japanese Music Education Society; JMES
The Federation of Music Producers Japan
Japan Music Education Association
Senzoku Gakuen College of Music
style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance
Musashino Academia Musicae
musical accompaniment and sound effects (esp. in kabuki)
International Musicological Society
Toho Junior College of Music
old Japanese court music from the Nara period
style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance
International Society for Contemporary Music; ISCM
Federation of International Musicians
form of gagaku performed while marching
International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres; IAML
(arch.) device with axle used to change the backdrop of a (kabuki) play; turning something in the manner one would use to cook dengaku tofu on both sides
old Japanese court music from the Nara period
words used to describe tempo, dynamics, etc. in music; musical terminology
Ein Musikalischer Spaß (Mozart); A Musical Joke
Flemish school (of music)
professional organization of sarugaku performers
metre or rhythm in Chinese and Japanese traditional music
music in the Korean court
manzai (comic dialogue) accompanied by music
ancient type of koto with 13 strings used in Gagaku music
large 4-stringed biwa used in gagaku
style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance