Shomyo definitions

Shōmyō

1) Buddhist music
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Shōmyō

Shōmyō, like gagaku, employs the Yo scale, a pentatonic scale with ascending intervals of two, three, two, two, and three semitones. ...
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shomyo

classical chant of Buddhism in Japan. Both the Tendai and Shingon sects maintain the tradition and use its theoretical books and notation systems as ... [1 related articles]
Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/85

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