The shamisen, a plucked lute with three strings, is a very popular instrument in nagauta. Nagauta performers generally play the shamisen and sing simultaneously. Nagauta is the basis of the Nagauta Symphony, a symphony in one movement composed in 1934 by composer Kosaku Yamada. Meriyasu is considered a subset of nagauta. == Further Reading == ...
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Japanese form of indeterminate length that alternates lines of five and seven syllables and ends with an additional seven-syllable line.
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(Japanese: `long song`), basic lyric musical accompaniment of Japanese Kabuki and classical dances (buy). The genre is found in the Kabuki plays by ... [1 related articles]
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