Song about Cherry Blossom

Song about Jasmine Flower

- A “moon shaped” lute

with short neck and

four strings, played

with a spectrum

Chinese mouthblown

free reed instrument

consisting of vertical

pipes. It looks like a set

of panpipes with 12 to

36 bamboo pipes.

is four-stringed

lute with varying

number of frets from

12 – 26 and a “pear

shaped” body.

- A Chinese transverse

flute.

- It is a double reed

Japanese flute used as

one of two main

melodic instruments in

Japanese gagaku

music.

- A broad range

percussion instrument.

It comes in various

sizes and is used to

play a variety of

musical genre.

- It is a Japanese free

reed musical

instrument that was

introduced from China

during the Nara*

period.

- is also called gaku-

daiko. It is a large

Japanese “hanging

drum”. It is played with

two mallets on one

side only. It is used

primarily in bugaku

orchestra.

- The most famous

flute, in Japan. It has

four or five holes on

the front face and a

thumb hole on the rear

face.

- is a hand drum. It

consists of a wooden

body shaped like an

“hourglass”, and it is

taut, with two

drumheads with cords

that can be squeezed

or released to increase

or decrease the

tension of the heads

respectively.

Kagura

Buddhist Chanting

Hogaku

Gagaku

Chong-ak

Music for

common/ordinary people

Nong Ak