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gagaku

Traditional court music of Japan with origins in ancient China and 8th-century Japan. The tonal systems, scales, and modes of gagaku are also derived from ancient Chinese theory and practice and each category of gagaku has a separate instrumentation (for example, the use of the ‘wagon’ zither in Shinto ritual music) and tonal system.



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Reprinted, too, is his first (1930) dance article (on Diaghilev), as well as an admiring but simplistic entry on Stravinsky's working method, and a charming essay on gagaku, the ancient Japanese court dance.
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Bugaku, George Balanchine's exotic and erotic choreography inspired by the Gagaku musicians and dancers of Japan, opened the program.
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This year's program includes two performances by Circle of Fire (an ensemble of musicians including director/bassist Mark Izu; Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain; Gagaku master Suenobu Togi; Noh drummer Shonosuke Okura; African American percussionist Anthony Brown; and Persian American multi-instrumentalist Hafez Modirzadeh).
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