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A full understanding of a Japanese accient chanting
A listening example of shinto music
A listening example of shinto music
What is Shinto?
Shinto, also known as "the way of the gods" is a Japanese religion dating from the early 8th century and incorporating the worship of ancestors and nature spirits and a belief in sacred power ( kami ) in both animate and inanimate things. It was the state religion of Japan until 1945. Shinto is polytheistic and revolves around the kami, supernatural entities believed to inhabit all things. The link between the kami and the natural world has led to Shinto being considered animistic and pantheistic. The virtue of Shintoism is Jyoumei Seichoku and in Shintoism, nature and god are viewed as one
Texture
Texture
Shinto is made to be a calming or relaxation song so it plays the same beat making it a homophonic texture.
Tempo
Tempo
Since it is a calming song the tempo is quite slow along the lines of a Grave tempo
Meter
Meter
Do to its repeated sound of instruments and other beats, Shinto has a single meter to its sound.
Instruments
Instruments
There are three main stringed instruments, the wagon, a 7-stringed table zither, the gaku-biwa, a 4-stringed lute, and the gaku-so, a 13-stringed table zither that's a precursor to the koto. Three of today's best-known traditional Japanese instruments date back to that time – the biwa, the koto and the shakuhachi.
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