- audiences, and a
number of the
pieces they
composed and performed,
called honkyoku, are preserved, pla****, and
interpreted in the po****r
imagination as a...
-
pitch varied subtly or
substantially by
changing the
blowing angle. The
Honkyoku pieces rely
heavily on this
aspect of the
instrument to
enhance their subtlety...
-
temples were
abolished in 1871, but
their honkyoku music remains po****r in
modern ****an.
Komuso pla****
honkyoku as a
meditative practice and for alms as...
- (ロツレ) and the fuho-u (フホウ) systems.
Traditional solo
shakuhachi music (
honkyoku) is
transmitted as a semi-oral tradition;
notation is
often used as a mnemonic...
- Kokū (虚空) or Koku is a
honkyoku, a solo "original piece" of ****anese
Buddhist origin for the shakuhachi, a
bamboo flute. The
title "Kokū" is
often translated...
-
traditional honkyoku is
generally only
attempted by
highly skilled shakuhachi musicians,
since the
blowing and
fingering techniques required for
honkyoku have...
-
recording of
shakuhachi in the
United States, and in 1977 NASA
selected a
honkyoku from the LP, "Tsuru No Sugomori" ("Depicting the
Cranes in
their Nest")...
- Shintō Taikyō (神道大教),
formerly called Shinto Honkyoku (神道本局), is a ****anese
Shintoist organization, and was
established by
Meiji officials in 1873. It...
-
graphically scored works since the 1950s and non-European
music such as
Honkyoku repertoire for shakuhachi, may be
considered ametric.
Senza misura is an...
-
around ****an to
research and
collect spiritual shakuhachi music pieces (
honkyoku) from his
fellow mendicant monks,
Kurosawa is
credited with
helping shakuhachi...
