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