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Noh as Musical Performance with Some Remarks on Historical Development

Authors

RUMÁNEK Ivan

Year of publication 2009
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Asian and African Studies
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords yowagin; tsuyogin; Chinese music theory; pentatonical scale; heptatonical scale; quantitative metre; dactyl; Homer;
Description The music in Noh is derived from the classical Japanese pentatonical music. The rhythm of the recited passages has a strong quantitative character with dactylic structure similar to that of Homer epics.

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