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Natalia Alas

Traditional Japanese Music - Koto - Virtual Culture - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan - 1 views

  • Japanese styles of expression. Instruments were adapted and newly created to meet local needs, and the most important of these were the shamisen, shakuhachi, and koto.
  • The shakuhachi is a flute made of bamboo that's played by blowing on one end. There are four holes in the front and one in the back, and so it's sometimes called a "five-holed bamboo flute" in English. These five holes are enough to produce a complete range of sounds; in fact, it's the small number of holes that gives the shakuhachi its distinctively poignant tone.
  • The shamisen resembles a guitar; it has a long, thin neck and a small, rectangular body covered with skin. I
    • maria jose conde suarez
       
      it is very interesting because it is saying that that instrument is covered with real skin and iv never seen an instrument of that kind
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  • The shamisen resembles a guitar; it has a long, thin neck and a small, rectangular body covered with skin.
  • musical forms were imported from China more than a thousand years ago, but over the years, they were reshaped into distinctively
  • It was the 13-string koto that was carried to Japan during the Nara period (710-794).
    • Natalia Alas
       
      The koto had less strings before, but it then happen to had
  • koto, meanwhile, is a large, wooden instrument with 13 strings. It's around 160 centimeters
  • history of traditional music in Japan is rich and varied.
  • Historians think the koto was born around the fifth to third century B.C. in China.
  • The left hand presses down on the strings to bend notes and create other effects.
  • it came to be performed by itself.
  • commonly performed with the shamisen and shakuhachi or as accompaniment to songs.
  • Sadly, modern Japanese rarely hear these traditional instruments being played live these days.
  • Of the traditional instruments, the koto is probably the most familiar and popular.
  • Many musical forms were imported from China more than a thousand years ago
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    This shamisen is similar to a guitar in shape. It is used to play historical traditional japanese music.
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    the shakuhachi is made from bamboo
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    This is the information of the traditional japanese instruments and how are they played. The most important ones were Shamisen, Shakuhachi, and Koto. Koto is the most familiar and popular. I found this website very interesting!
edgar benitez

Peruvian Music - 0 views

    • silvana escobar
       
      This page, seems reliable and also very interesting. I believe it's an outstanding page!
  • For most people outside Latin America the sound of the Andes is that of bamboo panpipes and quena flutes
  • The dominant areas of Andean culture are Peru , Ecuador and Bolivia, the countries with the largest indigenous Amerindian populations in South America.
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  • Andean music can be divided roughly into three types. Firstly, that which is of indigenous origin , found mostly amongst rural Amerindian peoples still living very much by the seasons with root Amerindian beliefs; secondly music of European origin , and thirdly mestizo music, which continues to fuse the indigenous with European in a whole host of ways.
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  • e outside Latin America the sound of the Andes is that of bamboo panpipes and quena flutes.
  • most remarkable is that these instruments have been used to create music in various parts of this large area of mountains - which stretch 4500 miles from Venezula down to southernmost Chile - since before the time of the Incas. Pre-Conquest Andean instruments - conch shell trumpets, shakers which used nuts for rattles, ocarinas, wind instruments and drums - are ever present in museum collections. And the influence of the Inca Empire means that the Andean region and its music spreads far beyond the mountains themselves
  • Peruvian oldest musical traditions are those of the Amerindians of the Andes. Their music is best known outside the country through the characteristic panpipes of poncho-clad folklore groups. However, there's a multitude of rhythms and popular music found here deserve a lot more recognition, including and, still relatively unknown abroad, as well as the distinct coastal tradition of, rooted in black slaves brought to work in the mines.            
  • Quechua (currently spoken by over six million people) and Aymara, both of which are spoken alongside Spanish and other Amerindian languages.
  • For most people outside Latin America the sound of the Andes is that of bamboo panpipes and quena flutes.
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  • this large area of mountains -
  • Peruvian oldest musical traditions are those of the Amerindians of the Andes. Their music is best known outside the country through the characteristic panpipes of poncho-clad folklore groups. However, there's a multitude of rhythms and popular music found here deserve a lot more recognition, including and, still relatively unknown abroad, as well as the distinct coastal tradition of, rooted in black slaves brought to work in the mines.            
    • Ana Sofia Perdomo
       
      peruvian intro
    • Ana Sofia Perdomo
       
      peruvian oldest musical tradition are those o the armendians of the andes. Their music
    • ana lucia arteaga luna
       
      peruvian music is divided in three parts
  • Peruvian oldest musical traditions are those of the Amerindians of the Andes.
  • Use of different scales involving four, five, six and seven notes and different singing styles are also found from place to place, tied to specific ritual occasions and the music which goes with them.
  • an oldest musical traditions are those of the Amerindians of the Andes. Their music is best known outside the country through the characteristic panpipes of poncho-clad folklore groups. However, there's a multitude of rhythms and popular music found here deserve a lot more recognition, including and, still relatively unknown abroad, as well as the distinct coastal tradition of, rooted in black slaves brought to work in the mines.            
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    cool its insterting because it has a lots of facts
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    peruvian music is the oldest musical tradition of the Amerindians in the Andes.the music is known through the woodwind family, means panpipes and all that type of flutes.the Andes is a stretch of 4500 miles from Venezuela to chie.
Natalia Alas

A Look at the Koto - Koto - Virtual Culture - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan - 0 views

  • A Look at the Koto
  • names are written with Chinese characters meaning "dragon's tongue," "dragon's brow," and "dragon's horn."
  • The names for the parts of a koto were decided long ago by likening the instrument to a dragon stretched out along the ground.
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  • The names for the parts of a koto were decided long ago by likening the instrument to a dragon stretched out along the ground.
  • After the koto is strung, and the strings are run through holes in the instrument's body and tied off, the leftover string is placed here.
  • This section is the main body of the koto.
  • This section is the main body of the koto.
  • are written with Chinese characters meaning "dragon's tongue," "dragon's brow," and "dragon's horn."
  • tsume
    • Natalia Alas
       
      the name of the object with what you play the Koto with
  • These supports are slid up and down the instrument to adjust the sound of each string.
  • These supports are slid up and down the instrument to adjust the sound of each string.
  • they also help transmit the sound from the strings to the body of the koto, making it fuller and richer.
  • The koto is not played directly with the fingers.
  • The koto is not played directly with the fingers.
  • After the koto is strung, and the strings are run through holes in the instrument's body and tied off, the leftover string is placed here.
  • tsume
    • Natalia Alas
       
      this is what we use to play the Koto. You need three of them for your index finger, middle finger and thumb
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    This talks about the Koto, how we play it, the part, with what we play it, etc. It was fun reading it!!
boris solis

Chinese Music: Development, Instruments - 0 views

  • raditional Chinese music can be traced back 7,000 - 8,000 years based on the discovery of a bone flute made in the Neolithic Age.
    • boris solis
       
      Chinese music is interesting read this
    • andres mejia
       
      very good
  • uring the Ming (1368 - 1644) and Qing Dynasties (1644 - 1911), the art of traditional opera developed rapidly and diversely in different regions. When these distinctive opera styles were performed at the capital (now called Beijing), artists combined the essence of the different styles and created Beijing opera, one of three cornerstones of Chinese culture (the other two being Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese painting) which continue to be appreciated even in modern times.
    • boris solis
       
      read this it is amacing
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