sarugaku (form of theatre popular in Japan during the 11th to 14th centuries)
dressing room; green room; backstage; behind the scenes; the inside; inside affairs
Ming-era Chinese music (popularized in Japan during the early 17th century)
gagaku; ceremonial Japanese court music
light music; popular music
wind music; wind instrument music
Western music; European music
orchestra member; musician
music for strings; string music
symphonic music; symphony
gigaku (genre of masked drama-dance performance)
theme; motif; melodic subject
celebrated musician; master musician
compositional rules; musical grammar
Music Department (part of the Board of Ceremonies of the Imperial Household Agency)
Ancient Chinese banquet music
Tang-era Chinese music; tōgaku; style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance
gagaku training place (Heian era); place for playing instruments
popular music; common people's music (as opposed to court music)
church music; sacred music
Music Bureau (Han dynasty; government office responsible for collecting folk songs); yuefu (genre of Chinese poetry composed in a folk song style)
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