Collection
Guitar Atlas: Japan
44 pieces in this collection.
- Alternate Guitar Tuning Used in This Book
- Appendix
- Binzara
- Biwa
- Chapter 1 - Brief History of Japanese Music
- Chapter 2 - Traditional Instruments of Japan
- Chapter 3 - Traditional Scales and Modes
- Chapter 4 - Folk Music (Minyo)
- Chapter 5 - Classical Music of Okinawa
- Chapter 6 - Shamisen Music of the Kabuki Theater
- Chapter 7 - Koto Music (Sokyoku)
- Edo Komori-uta (Edo Lullaby)
- Final Word
- Folk Music Today
- Introduction
- Introduction to "Rokudan no Shirabe" and "Midare"
- Izumo no Okuni
- Kabuki Music
- Kimi Ga Yo (Japan's National Anthem)
- Kiso Bushi (A Bon Dance)
- Koto
- Melodies
- Michio Miyagi
- Midare (Disorder)
- Notation Key
- Ozatsuma (Kabuki Interlude)
- References for Further Listening
- References for Further Reading
- Rhythm
- Rokudan no Shirabe (Music in Six Steps)
- Sakura (Cherry Blossoms)
- Scale and Mode Theory
- Shakuhachi
- Shamisen and Sanshin
- Shukkee Bushi (The Coming of Dawn)
- Singing
- Taiko, Gakudaiko, and Dadaiko
- The Hirajoshi, Kumoijoshi, and Kokinjoshi "Scales"
- The In Modes
- The Instruments
- The Yo Modes
- Tsuzumi
- What is Kabuki?
- Yatsuhashi Kengyo and the Masters