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Now the Japanese call japanese pop "Bangle". Usually used as a symmetrical term for western music, it refers to all traditional Japanese music except western music. According to the types of musical instruments used, the following classifications can be made:

Palace music

The ritual music played at the court ceremony was introduced from China and Korea in ancient times, which can be said to retain the oldest style of Japanese pop music.

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Buddhist ritual music is a kind of vocal music. It appeared at the same time as Buddhism, and brought great influence to Japanese popularity in the future.

Traditional Japanese Music: Pipa Music

After the Warring States Period, it developed into a kind of music about war stories accompanied by pipa, which is a combination of playing and singing.

Qu Zheng

The so-called "Zheng music" not only refers to the guqin music, but also includes the ensemble music of guqin, Sanxian and Xiao. Guqin is a plucked instrument with 13 strings, which was developed by combining three-string music with the edo period. From the Taisho period to the early years of Showa, many famous songs were left, which had a great influence in the field of Zheng music.

clarinet

Xiao originated in Kamakura, where nihilistic monks played this clarinet instead of chanting. Because of its length of one foot eight inches (about 55 cm), it is also called "Foot Eight".

Sanxian music

The three-string sounding box made of cat skin or dog skin is a representative musical instrument in Japan. In the Edo period, Sanxian, which was widely used, was not only used as theater music such as kabuki and doll net glass, but also used as accompaniment for many ballads, and it is still widely used today.

folk song

Songs and music handed down are sung everywhere. Among them, there are many labor songs, and the most familiar "Trawl Minor" is such a masterpiece.

Compared with the seven scales of western music, modern Bangzi music has only five scales (unlike the five tones composed of 4 and 7 in China's Gong Shang Jiao Zheng Qu, the traditional Japanese "Zhongshan Debugging" has no 2 and 5 tones). The rhythm is mostly even beats of 2 beats and 4 beats, and there are almost no 3 beats. There are more folk songs than pure instrumental music. Musical instruments are usually used as vocal accompaniment, but there is a subtle, inconsistent and complicated disconnect between them and the performance process of vocal music. In addition, the musical instrument combination formed by Sanxian, Guqin and Xiao produces noise components, which are loved by people as the complex timbre of bracelets.

After the introduction of western music in Meiji period, western music became the mainstream of Japanese pop music, and Chinese music was gradually submerged by western music (now speaking of Japanese singers, most of them are excellent pop musicians such as Ayumi Hamasaki and kinki kids, and few are traditional musicians). But in recent years, Bangle has received renewed attention and more and more fans.