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	Nagauta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nagauta (長唄; literally "long song" from Japanese) is a kind of traditional Japanese music which accompanies the kabuki theater.
		The shamisen, a plucked lute with three strings, is a very popular instrument in nagauta.
		Nagauta performers generally play the shamisen and sing simultaneously.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nagauta (123 words)

	Nagauta History Summary
		Nagauta (long poems or songs) is the dominant musical form for the Kabuki theatre and depicts the various poetic descriptions of the dance and scenes.
		Nagauta developed during the Genroku period (1688–1703) and was further refined with the introduction of highly skilled shamisen players.
		Nagauta is a lyrical form that consists of four to nine singers, four to nine shamisen, and a Noh ensemble (one to three hip drums, one stick drum, and one flute).
	www.bookrags.com /history/worldhistory/nagauta-ema-04 (372 words)

	KABUKI GLOSSARY (M~N)
		Longer pieces were written, and by around 1740 a new, mature form of Nagauta was created which had all the lyricism of the shorter forms plus the sustaining power of the more narrative music.
		"Nagauta was created entirely to meet the requirements of the Kabuki theatre and became a musical style which served a number of purposes on the stage.
		Nagauta may be described as the general purpose music of the Kabuki theatre.
	www.kabuki21.com /glossaire_5.php (1767 words)

	Upcoming Event 2/29/04
		Nagauta is a music form developed along with Kabuki in Japan and has a history of 400 years.
		While he was in college he won a competition in composing Nagauta and received the most honored award from the school.After graduating theConservatory he became a professional performer and teacher.
		He is holding a position on the Executive Board of the Nagauta Association and is a committee member of Hogaku Shinko Kikin Shinsa Kai (Committee for the Fostering of Japanese Music).
	www.jtpao.org /pressreleases/02-29-04pr.htm (929 words)

	Tebay/Malm, Nagauta
		This study is meant to address a variety of audience types: "the musician, the Orientalist, the theater devotee, and the intellectually curious." It is obviously tailored to Western audiences.
		Being teachers of traditional music, they were "committed to upholding the nagauta tradition in as pure a form as possible." They were active, professional performers as well, which meant that they were aware of the most current status of the developments in kabuki music.
		Since there is no definitive pitch for nagauta pieces (the pitch base, shamisen tunings, and flute sizes are all determined by the singer) Malm chose B as a typical pitch base.
	cfaonline.asu.edu /haefer/classes/568/568.papers/tebay4.html (1995 words)

	work: December 2001 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nagauta: The Heart of Kabuki Music, arguably one of the first and finest Western studies of a specific Japanese musical genre, is an expansion of his dissertation, created during those two years abroad.
		Nagauta, as it exists today, is seen as a historical music from the Edo period (1615-1867), and later Malm discusses Japanese Nagauta players’ attempts to incorporate Western orchestral techniques into the music.
		While the optimal form of Nagauta education would be formal training in Japan with Nagauta musicians, the more practical method of teaching Nagauta music in the US would have to use some Western analytical tools in order to make the music understandable to Western students.
	work.billtron.org /archives/2001_12.php (1629 words)

	Kabuki Story: Forms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		By the 13th century they were travelling throughout Japan recounting the tales of the battles between the Heike and Genji clans, much in the same way that the troubadours and minnesingers moved within medieval Europe.
		The introduction of the shamisen into Japan (c.1560) was an important development and it eventually became the instrument to make the most significant musical contribution to nagauta and the kabuki theatre.
		Whilst forms of nagauta exist away from the stage (ozashiki), this is the principal musical form to be found within kabuki.
	www.lightbrigade.demon.co.uk /Breakdown/Forms.htm (801 words)

	Eurospeech 2003 Abstract: Minematsu et al. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		NAGAUTA is a classical style of the Japanese singing.
		It has very original and unique prosodic patterns in its singing, where an abrupt and sharp change of F_0 is always observed at a transition from a note to another.
		Acoustic analysis of NAGAUTA singing samples reveals that sharp increases of F_0 and sharp decreases of power are observed synchronously.
	www.isca-speech.org /archive/eurospeech_2003/e03_0385.html (196 words)

	Japanese old photos from 1926 to 1942 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		nagauta (a form of Japanese classical music) and a merchant family.
		Nagauta concert on the stage of Kabukiza (the Kabuki theater in Ginza) held to celebrate a nagauta master's home-coming from America.
		Fellow pupils exchanging New Year's greetings at a nagauta master's house.
	www02.so-net.ne.jp /~reverie/nagauta-e.html (402 words)

	Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Two forms of music were used, a lyrical style called Nagauta, featuring poetic descriptions of the scene, and several different narrative genres that would tell the story through dance in scenes called "joruri shosagoto".
		It seems that in Edo, groups of Nagauta musicians were contracted to play in a particular theater for several years at a time while Joruri musicians were contracted for one year at a time.
		It seems that most of the texts for Nagauta pieces were written by the same playwright or playwrights responsible for the rest of the play.
	www.cilea.it /music/pgabstr/takeuchi.htm (1662 words)

	Plattsburgh State - Dr. Drew Waters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nagauta means "long song" and its original role within Kabuki was to accompany the dancing.
		Nagauta music is played by the on stage debayashi ensemble: shamisens, vox and noh hayashi.
		Nagauta consists of a framework of clearly identifiable sections.
	faculty.plattsburgh.edu /andrew.waters/world_master_list.htm (7745 words)

	TRADITIONAL ENTERTAINMENT
		In Japanese music, there are utaimono, or songs of nagauta, utazawa, kouta, hauta, and katarimono, or story telling of kiyomoto, a school of joruri and biwa.
		Nagauta is a kind of shamisen music and was born as accompanying music of Kabuki dance.
		It can be said that nagauta is an essence of Japanese traditional music.
	shofu.pref.ishikawa.jp /shofu/intro_e/HTML/H_S60203.html (510 words)

	nagauta -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The genre is found in the Kabuki plays by the mid-17th century, although the term itself is common in much earlier poetic forms.
		"nagauta" Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
		The nagauta form of lyric music, like most of the other narrative forms, began with a close relation to the kabuki popular theatre of the Tokugawa period.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9054652 (376 words)

	Shamisen - Nakano - Horiuchi
		Around the eighteenth-century, a genre of music called "Nagauta" established itself as distinct from the repertoire of kabuki theater because of its sophisticated compositions and demands on the player.
		He planned to learn Nagauta music so that he could incorporate it into his original compositions.
		However, as he began formal studies with Lillian in 1990, shamisen and Nagauta became a central activity of his life.
	www.actaonline.org /grants_and_programs/apprenticeships/1999/nakano.htm (373 words)

	SP2004 Abstract: Minematsu et al. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nagauta is one of the classical styles of Japanese singing characterized by original and unique prosodic patterns.
		Abrupt and sharp changes of F0 are often observed and they induce simultaneous abrupt changes of power.
		In the second evaluation, a standard score of a real song is adopted to synthesize its Nagauta prosodic patterns.
	www.isca-speech.org /archive/sp2004/sp04_487.html (212 words)

	Japanese Traditional Music (Hohgaku) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The actors introduced Nagauta to the Edo area during the BUNSEI ERA (1819-1829).
		Nagauta became a separate art form from Kabuki.
		The popularity of Nagauta grew during the MEIJI PERIOD (1868-1912).
	shofu.pref.ishikawa.jp /shofu/geinou_e/buyou/hougaku_e/3e/naga1_e.html (68 words)

	UPD this month: Dulaang UP’s Kanjincho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The two actors and the 22-men Nagauta Orchestra are part of the Kabuki, Kanjincho.
		Invited Kabuki consultants were Mochizuki Takinojo (for Nagauta music), Fujima Toyohiro (for movement) and Matsumoto Minoru (for costume and props).
		By the time the sensei returned for the second part of the nagauta workshop, the musicians had improved considerably, after rehearsing every night.
	www.upd.edu.ph /~updinfo/archives/JanFeb2003/Kanjincho.htm (1427 words)

	Shamisen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The shamisen derives from the sanshin (a close ancestor from the southernmost Japanese prefecture of Okinawa and one of the primary instruments used in that area), which in turn evolved from the Chinese sanxian, itself deriving ultimately from Central Asian instruments.
		The shamisen can be played solo or with other shamisen, in ensembles with other Japanese instruments, with singing such as nagauta, or as an accompaniment to drama, notably kabuki and bunraku.
		This page was last modified 09:12, 29 March 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shamisen (757 words)

	Kineya Ensemble : Nagauta Kabuki Theater Music - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Japanese nagauta style of singing is used to accompany the well-known Japanese dance theater of kabuki.
		At the beginning, the shamisen was used to accompanied singers, in a style called jiuta.
		At that time, kabuki theater started to use a shamisen ensemble to accompany dances and developed the nagauta style of singing, which quickly became the typical style of kabuki singing.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,1130983,00.html (199 words)

	William Roper's Juneteenth
		This last work,Kagami Jishi, is a traditional Nagauta piece.
		Glenn Horiuchi was an improvising pianist and composer of extraordinary accomplishment.
		As he began formal studies with his aunt, Lillian Nakano, in 1990, shamisen and Nagauta became a central activity of his life.
	www.geocities.com /blasquinte/Jntnth.html (607 words)

	Naga-uta Shamisen Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Apart from the singers, the instrument central to geza is the three-stringed shamisen.
		The geza musicians and singers actually play in a style known as nagauta, or "long song." Alternately lively and virile and melodic and plaintive, nagauta was founded in Edo around 1740 and is the oldest form of what we may call pure Kabuki music, evolving together with the theater.
		As its name implies, nagauta was designed as an extended style of melodic music, suitable for the accompaniment of lengthy dances.
	webforce.nwrain.net /kabuki/music.html (346 words)

	Kikuko's web site
		Nagauta evolved as an accompanying music for Kabuki from its early days,
		and officially started to be called as Nagauta from early part of 18th century.
		Nagauta also serves as a BGM to Kabuki, known as Geza-music.
	kikuko.web.infoseek.co.jp /english/strings.html (1321 words)

	Crisscross - Newsmakers - Foreigners enter cloistered world of shamisen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After more than 30 years of playing and teaching shamisen, Nishimura has found that Japanese students are all too often afraid of making mistakes, easily discouraged and too consumed with the ritual to really develop a love of the instrument.
		The daughter of a famous theater dancer, she was forced to wear kimono and learn her mother's craft from the age of five.
		Kikuoka, who took her in, was in the midst of launching his own rebellion against the world of "nagauta," and Nishimura became his most eager recruit.
	www.crisscross.com /jp/newsmaker/66 (1014 words)

	Ensemble Nipponia : Japan: Kabuki & Other Traditional Music - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This other CD by the well-known Japanese ensemble Ensemble Nipponia is the re-release of a LP first released in 1980 by Nonesuch in their collection on Japanese music.
		In the first half of this CD, we hear pieces and songs of the well-known Japanese kabuki theater, in the style called nagauta (which means "long song").
		Nagauta is not the only style used in kabuki, but is the most important and most appropriately adapted to stage actions, providing dance accompaniment, songs, and background music.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,215362,00.html (256 words)

	shamisen2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mid-18th century: nagauta becomes main type of kabuki music.
		Hayashi ensemble of noh becomes important in nagauta.
		Nagauta text: five and seven syllable units of Japanese poetry.
	stripe.colorado.edu /~keister/shamisen2.html (185 words)

	Kineya Kichisaburo Memorial Concert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Noted nagauta (traditional kabuki music) musician, Master Kineya Kichisaburo earned his professional name at the age of 17 and started work as a professional shamisen player and singer.
		The late nagauta master, Kineya Kichisaburo, will be paid tribute at a special memorial concert to be so-sponsered by the Japaneese American Cultural and Community Center and the Toei-Kai, the association of his students on Sunday, June 8, 2P.M. at the Aratani Japan America Thertre.
		Adding prestige to the concert are artists from Japan, including Katada Kisaku, the Living National Treasure percussionist; prominent nagauta singers Kineya Sakou and Kineya Saetaka; noted shamisen musicians Kineya Saeiji and Kineya Saito; and flutist Fukuhara Hyakka.
	www.jtpao.org /pressreleases/06-08-03pr.htm (488 words)

	This Week in Southern California
		The Nagauta version of Kurokami is based on a Kabuki act in which Tatsu Hime (Princess Tatsu) sacrificially gives the person she loves away to Masako (Daughter of Hojo Tokimasa) for political reasons.
		She suppresses her feeling, but as she is brushing her fl hair in front of the mirror, she is troubled by the feeling of envy slowly arising in her heart.
		Though this Kurokami is a Nagauta version, this particular piece was choreographed by the 8th Headmaster Bando Mitsugoro into Jiutamai style dancing, which delicately expresses the heart of a woman who must hold her feelings back from the person she loves.
	culturalnews.tripod.com (7088 words)

	Shaped by Japanese Music: Kikuoka Hiroaki and Nagauta Shamisen in Tokyo - PowerBookSearch!
		Using an ethnographic approach, this study situates musical analysis in the context of its creation, demonstrating that traditional Japanese music is hardly an archaic song form frozen in the present, but an active sociocultural system that has been reproduced in Japan from the seventeenth century to the present day.
		The dynamics of this cultural system unfold in the musical experiences of Kikuoka Hiroaki, the leader of a school of nagauta music, who struggled to modernize the art form while trying to maintain the qualities he believed to be fundamental to the tradition.
		As part of his field research in Japan, he has had training in the nagauta and gagaku ensembles of Japanese traditional music.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0415969727.html (495 words)

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