Relaxing Japanese Music, Zen Music with Traditional Flute, Koto, Shamisen

Traditional Japanese music - Wikipedia Traditional Japanese music or 邦楽 (hōgaku), meaning literally (home) country music (as opposed to 洋楽 (yōgaku) - Western music) is the folk or traditional music of Japan. Japan's Ministry of Education classifies Hōgaku as a category separate from other traditional forms of music, such as Gagaku (court music) or Shōmyō (Buddhist chanting), but most ethnomusicologists view Hōgaku, in a broad sense, as the form from which the others were derived.[1] Outside of ethnomusicology, however, Hōgaku usually refers to Japanese music from around the 17th to the mid-19th century.[2] Within this framework, there are three types of traditional music in Japan: theatrical, court music (called gagaku), and instrumental. Theatrical[edit] Japan has several theatrical forms of drama in which music plays a significant role. The main forms are kabuki and noh. Noh[edit] Noh (能) or nōgaku (能楽) music is a type of theatrical music. Kabuki[edit] Geza[edit] Shosa-ongaku[edit] Ki and Tsuke[edit] Court Music (Gagaku)[edit]

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