Japan Study Guide

Download the Japan Study Guide below. This assignment is meant to completed while reading the Japan Chapter in our textbook, Excursions in World Music. Once you have completed the Study Guide, save the document and then upload your saved doc in the submission area for this assignment.

Your Study guide answers should be complete and correct (20 pts) and be submitted on time (5 pts). There are 25 points possible for this assignment.

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World Music Name__________________________

Study Guide: Japan

1. __Hogaku__ is the general name for traditional music in Japan.
2. The voice, the ____Kotos____, and the ___Shamisens___ seemed to share basic melody, but each performed the melody in a somewhat different fashion, rhythmically as well as melodically resulting in a texture that may be described as _____Heterophonic___.
3. Classify and describe the following primary Japanese instruments:
Koto-Long, thirteen-string zither
Shamisen-three stringed, long-necked

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