dressing room;  green room;  backstage;  behind the scenes;  the inside;  inside affairs
 music for strings;  string music
 Tang-era Chinese music;  tōgaku;  style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance
 Ancient Chinese banquet music
 sarugaku (form of theatre popular in Japan during the 11th to 14th centuries); (arch.)  noh
 Western music;  European music
 Ming-era Chinese music (popularized in Japan during the early 17th century)
 compositional rules;  musical grammar
 gagaku training place (Heian era);  place for playing instruments
 old Japanese court music;  gagaku
 wind music;  wind instrument music
 orchestra member;  musician
 melodic subject;  theme;  motif
 celebrated musician;  master musician
 musical passage or section
 Music Department (part of the Board of Ceremonies of the Imperial Household Agency)
 popular music;  common people's music (as opposed to court music)
 music performed by women;  women who performed court Bugaku music and dance
 church music;  sacred music
 Qing-era Chinese music (popularized in Japan during the early 19th century)
 new music;  shingaku (post-Tang dynasty gagaku piece)
 metre or rhythm in Chinese and Japanese traditional music
 music in the Korean court
 old Japanese court music from the Nara period
 style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance
 Flemish school (of music)
 ancient type of koto with 13 strings used in Gagaku music
 words used to describe tempo, dynamics, etc. in music;  musical terminology
 form of gagaku performed while marching
 large 4-stringed biwa used in gagaku
 style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance