雅楽：越天楽 Gagaku:Etenraku

[TheSpped000]

音がきれい。



[nexon633]

美しい！

[MegaRed789]

普段使われない奥の奥の感受性まで呼び起される。

[windiws100]

使ってる楽器は何ですか？

[blackcats160616]

目の前で雅楽の演奏を聞いた事がある。本当に素晴らしくて神聖な­空気が澄みわたるような雰囲気がある。一度聞いてみた方がいいか­も涙がでてくるんだよね。



[spnoneet]

これぞ日本の美しさ！

[1985kyogoku]

雅楽に使われる楽器の音って厳かな気分になりますね

しかしどうしてもお正月って感じがしてしまう

近所に大きい神社があれば少しイメージ違うのかな？

[yaruotanuki]

素晴らしい・・・

[sigege1000]

日本の神妙な感じが表されてて大好きです＾＾

でも今じゃ　楽器の使い方や舞の踊り方などが間違っていたりしているんですよ­ね

雅楽で使われる楽器などを作っている職人さんも少ないと言います­し…

[TARIKIKUNSHIN]

I love ancient music of my grandma´s Japan! I can feel the Yamato damashii.

[a308m]

美しい。ただその一言に尽きます。

[atman331CAMEL]

古代日本というと、新しくは洛中洛外図や、源氏物語絵巻に、古く­は万葉集の額田王の「うまさけ…」の歌に詠まれ、執拗なまでに描­かれる慶雲のたなびきが心に浮かんできます。越天楽の、繰り返し­の多い冗長な旋律は、まさにこの雲の印象そのままであり、金属音­が豪華絢爛な天平朱の連想をかきたて、心が千三百年の昔にいざな­われるような心地がします。

[chai9tea7latte]

高校生の時、「陰陽師」ってゆう漫画にはまったのがきっかけで

バスの中でも雅楽聴いてました笑。今度は生で聴いてみたいです。­

[tomigon0306]

めっちゃわびさびってる

[koitsuyaruna]

雅楽って中国発祥では？

もっというとインド

[1225ZOO]

高1の音楽の授業で篳篥やったなぁ

[yasuoyuasa]

音が輝いて見える。すごい。

[kobayakawakingo]

雅楽は好きだね。

恐らく日本人ならなんとなくわかる感覚

ただ、この背景はちょっとよくない

桜がとか合わないとかじゃなく、「動きのない絵」だから。

日本の美ってのは諸行無常に通ずるものがあるから

桜は咲いたものよりも散り始める頃の方がとても美しく見えるよう­に

「生きている絵」の方がもっと雰囲気を味わえるし風流を知っても­らえる気がする

[demonheadtakano]

@kobayakawakingo i don't know what your saying but your probaply right!

[kobayakawakingo]

@demonheadtakano

ごめん、全く英語わからないから一応翻訳機使ってみた。

多分言ってるのは　諸行無常ってとこなんだと思う

諸行無常ってのは、仏教の言葉で「諸々の行いは常無し」ってこと

要するに、全てのことは永遠に続くことはないし、変わっていくも­のなんだ　という意味



[goefu90]

@kobayakawakingo

自分が読めない日本語で長文コメント書いててかつサムズアップさ­れてるから

”何言ってんかわかんねぇけどきっとお前は正しい”って冗談ぽく­言ってるんだよ

[ASSSS091]

テレビなんかでたまに聞くこの音楽が雅楽なのか・・・



[anga10na]

ありがとう　

[akaospirits]

Gagaku uses three types of instruments: wind, string and percussion.

Gagaku also has its own unique instruments such as the shou, a woodwind instrument, and the hichiriki, a kind of flute.

The Imperial Household Agency has their own gagaku orchestra which plays special pieces for different events.

[akka0823]

It's quite amazing that Gagaku was originally invented by the ancient Persian poeple, and it only remained in Japan o.O

[gloomyoutlook]

@akka0823

whaaa, really? that's amazing

[rugbytlse]

Thinking that it's the same music that people heard more than 1000 years ago is making me dizzy..

[bululunlun]

おぉ！雅楽って、時々耳にしてたこの曲もそうなのか。

いいこと知った。

[nuttypuppie]

笙の音色って、なんか独特で引き込まれますね

[nogobato]

Hahaha In the original, the original that is not Korea is China.

China is influencing Korea.

[star009apple]

早い話がいらいらして興奮したら、男性は女性を連れて抜け出すべ­きなのかも。とても、原始的な感じの音楽です。

[4444yokohama25]

お正月って感じがしますな～

あけましておめでとうございます

[tokumas]

Very Spacious and it has a dignity like a nature......

[XxPhoenixHarpyexX2]

when i hear this....i always think about a kitsune.....^_^

[TENSYOIN]

後世に残していくべき、大切な日本の音楽ですね。

雅楽は、千年余語り継ぎ、積み重ねてきた日本の文化そのものだと­思います。

私がこんなことを言うのもあれですけど、雅楽以上に、音の一つ一­つが澄んで清らかな音楽はないんじゃないかな、と思います。

[giouhgyjv]

意外と、雅楽って好き。

[kurumatanimasao]

荘厳だ。思わず姿勢を正してしまう。

[Orlymusicboy]

this would accompany the 3rd offering in confucian ceremonies in fall. I think.

[kxxdg410]

日本ってイメージ高いなぁ　和むわこの音楽は

[CajunFry]

9 dislikes? Are ninjas still available to take these people out? haha j/k

Beautiful music. And haunting.

[muffinprophecy]

@CajunFry

dislikes on japan-related content are typically from korean and chinese kids

[jin54363]

@LittleLionLover

lol korea lies

[HappyHabbo]

Oh that is so relaxing... @.@

[lephaazreal]

It has such a mournful sound.

[mikafan1003]

The instrumental sounds calm me down and sharpen my concentration level.

[2008emitan]

japanesemusicのミニマリズム。

[fujimusume1]

Gagaku is beautiful and beyond this universe.

[odayu21]

9 dislikes....... i don't understand

[joshisanonymous]

@odayu21 I've found comments similar to this is for just about every music video I've ever seen on YouTube. C'mon, is it really that hard to understand that taste differs?

[HijioriDollKokeshi]

I love art and music from Heiyankyo. Heiyan period

[GuitaristInProgress]

Beautiful

[nippofilica]

Is that the huge Sakura from Ueno park in Tokyo?

[Cyrean]

@nippofilica it seems to be the great weeping sakura tree in the Maruyama park in Kyoto near Yasaka Shrine

[allyouhavetolose]

3:15

[Alusnovalotus]

@ianyunxiong ??? what about emperor wen of han?

[ianyunxiong]

@Alusnovalotus

It is said the music has been written by Emperor Wen (中国・前漢皇帝文帝). The following part is from wikipedia Japan:

『越天楽』「越殿楽」とも記述される。原曲は中国・前漢の皇帝文­帝の作品と伝えられている。しかし高祖・劉邦の軍師張良の作曲で­あるという説や、日本での作曲である説などもあり、実際の所はよ­くわかっていない。

[Ecthelion008]

@ianyunxiong

おそらく文帝の歌詞（それの日本語版）と日本の奈良時代以前の作­曲の作品ということかな～

[manichinoambulante]

who is the artist?

[marimarisurf]

幽玄って言葉がぴったり

闇夜に浮かぶ桜のなんて妖しく美しいこと

[gnikhilg]

eeeeeeeeeeerie cool

[imsoblonde16]

@NelliVideo

No.

[Fenrir63]

when i stare real hard at the sakura tree image...it seems to be moving...

[dutchfett]

damn you're right man!

[NelliVideo]

たりり人のる言った無縁。んが篳でシのすひ一度、生別...

ok i am english.. does that sentence even mean anything?

[schlutia]

@NelliVideo

Nope

[nunuriyotohenimu]

音色が美しすぎて鳥肌がたちました。

[mjreimizu]

こういうのもいいなあ。

ぜひ一度、生で演奏を聴いてみたい。

[plasnu]

Eastern classical music is very close to contemporary Western academic music. From Debussy to Ferneyhough, most of 20th century Western music was under influence of Eastern music.

[soulneoclassic]

これを通勤途中の殺伐とした電車内で聴いてます。

和みます。

[KoZuI]

Isn't this song also used in memoirs of a geisha, in the scene of the snow dance?

[Tekirai]

actually yes it was!!!

[rabuand]

神社の定番って感じ。

背筋がピッと伸びる！

こんなこと言ったら罰当たりですか？

[sheep1chaser]

12音階は無力化する。

過去に東儀さんが篳篥でb-bap(？)したのは、温故知新的調­合とは無縁。

[sheep1chaser]

大切なものはいつも究極の芸に在る。

手っ取り早く神に繋がる物的根拠。

祈りとしての念を込め伝えられた芸術にこそ、語られるべき真があ­ると思う。

[sheep1chaser]

まるで別世界!!

現代の一般人のモノサシでは語れない

[occeo]

Japanese are the best at preserving culture.

[saladshootavvv]

@occeo I dunno, the USA is VERY good at preserving its pop culture lol

[Boggert]

@occeo You'd think otherwise walking around Tokyo :(

[lukkha1]

@occeo　yes right you shoud come to aihabara or shibuya or shinjuku or harajuku or even ginza and kyoto and you will see how japanese are good at preserving culture . i am japanese and i can tell you that without the national living treasures instituted by the emperor after the world war 2 when the country was destroyed and later on the unesco tangible and intangible world heritage program. japanese culture would be gone and forgotten. 90% of the japanese could not even tell you what is thismusic

[lukkha1]

@occeo　i can unfortunately promice you that in 30 years 80 percent of the japanese tradition will be gone. already the kimono industry is dead we produce only low range kimono, same with laquerware and traditional bamboo and paper and wood crafts. only 4 people in japan know how to make swords today and only two people can build a house and a garden in the most traditional ways. only 5 bonsai masters left and 200 geisha 80 percent dont even have a clue what their job is about. believe me my

[lukkha1]

@occeo　me my friend , we are just as americanized now as anyone else in NYC or LA. we go to school to learn how to wear a kimono like any foreigner here, as my mother say the only thing that every japanese can still do is eat with chopsticks, and here again some are very bad at using them .i was born in a kind of traditional family (my mother is a geiko) and believe me now that even hollywood attacks our culture with bullshit like the last samurai or memoirs of a geisha, we dont know who we are

[lukkha1]

@occeo　anymore because even the japanese start to believe that samurai and geisha are what america depicts them as. my grand mother geisha too used to say japan is like a cocoon, if you try to open it to free the catterpillar in it you lose the silk, if you boild the cocoon to get the silk you kill the catterpilar. it is better left untouched if you want it to turn into a butterfly and yet again when it will turn into a butterfly his life is so short.its wiser to just appreciate the coccoon

[Rinjingin7]

@occeo What about the indigenous Amazonian tribes? or the pre-historic individual encapsulated in ice...mummies?

[natrakazdaj]

I like it :)

[capaden]

just amazing, one of my favorite musics ever! thank you.

[namaste91]

you say that,what i couldn't say in my own words..thank you very much!:)

[01ryo07]

円山公園の桜によく合いますね。

[deadvodka]

ちょっと多すぎるじゃないかと思っているもうちょっと初々しい背­景の方がいいんじゃない。

[pranhu]

It was my bad .. Yes, i meant quarter tone scales from Microtonic scales. I still think . this is so amazing how Japanese could preserve this ancient music alive till nowadays. Erhu was introduced by Mongol or barbarians( bad comment) .

[ElevenKids]

i am watching it because it will help me remember what to do when i am playing scrabble and my tiles are AAGGKU

[palatena]

hahahahahha

[anak1]

I love gagaku! Such an ancient and insightful music in to the elegance of the Imperial Court :D

This sounds a bit strange, but because the original Tang dynasty "Yayue" melodies' tempos were made much more slower and drawn out once exported to Japan from the Heian period onwards, by speeding up any Tougaku piece, you pretty much have the original melody as it may have been played in the ancient Tang Dynasty courts! :D Try it with a recording of "Bato" or "Konjyu" :)

[U08128226]

is this background a still picture? or is this a video of an event?

[TeppeiDog1]

Sei Shounagon may have hated the hichiriki, but i love it!

[Bloodlovefreak]

The result of Asia's most glorious dynasty.

[PrinceSokhornSokha]

*God* I desire an enemy to assassinate!*God*

[okabemasasi]

わお　いっつ　オチツク

[TOTORORONPA]

gagaku shamisen taiko koto samurai = japan

[DDBUT]

Amazing! Full of sensation!

[dannywmy]

hi there dudes, but Gagaku:Etenraku is imported from China, during the Tang dynasty. 唐雅乐 detsu. Other imported gagaku included 兰陵王入阵曲...and so on .....

[pranhu]

yeah .. and Tang import this song through persia. this song suppose to mimic ancient persian music. This is the reason why this song dint sound like a typical chinese music with pentatonic scale.There is a quater note present in this song (hint,, only arabic-persian music use quater note in their music)...

[dannywmy]

One most possible reason is that Tang dynasty spread its influence to central asia and have the contacts among these countries, could be a normal culture exchange, Tang had the most culture versatility because of its political policy, the empire have a strong strategic alliance with these countries and tribes，sometimes they more like dependency to Tang.

[dannywmy]

Of coz this doesn't show that ancient china dont have the quarter note since most records of musics at that time is really hard to preserve till now, its been 1500 yrs from now.

[dannywmy]

one more reason for the failure of preservation of gagaku music in ancient china is that the invasion of barbarians, china had 2 fall which cause original culture been destroyed in vast scale;

[dannywmy]

1st time mongolians, ancient china fight it for 50 long yrs before the total fall into mongolian's hands, 2nd time the manchurian, this barbarian tribe had destroyed ｃｕｌｔｕｒｅ　ｏｆ　ancient china，ａｎｄ　ｃｏｌｏｎｉｚｅｄ　ｉｔ　ｆｏｒ　２００ｐｌｕｓ　ｙｒｓ．．ｌ．

[seona]

Are you talking about quarter-tones when you mention "quarter note"? Cause quarter note usually refers to a note 1/4 of duration of a whole note.

Anyways, really interesting piece - probably one of the earliest uses of cluster harmonies too.

[rskewlvids]

y u talkin about chinese ppl and mongolians and theyr war...if this is japanese???

[plaux129]

because it offers more background information on gagaku and how most of it disappeared in China

[jin54363]

@dannywmy

i've never listen a chinese instrument with that sound!!

[chunsparrow2]

@jin54363　ah.. it's not chinese x|

[jin54363]

@chunsparrow2

thats what i said, i said that if gagaku was imported from china, i would know about such instrument in chinese

[Hikikomori013]

@jin54363 The Gagaku ensemble came almost entirely from China. The biwa is descended from an 8th century Tang pipa, although the modern pipa no longer uses the spatulate plectrum preserved in Japanese Gagaku. I believe the sho has survived in China, and the flute. There was once a 7 string koto you might know as the guqin, although it has fallen out of use in Japan. The origins of the instruments range across the length of the Silk Road, but Japan got them from the Tang dynasty.

[dretyn123]

this is a song from the Onimusha soundtrack. Way better than those battle songs.

[19924612]

THE japanese soul!!!!

[Ecthelion008]

Gagaku is actually Chinese. This particular song was written by a Han Emperor.  Consult any source on the matter if you don't believe me.

The Japanese have simply kept the tradition alive while it has long since died in China.

[jurisimprudence]

Etenraku is the most famous piece of Gagaku but strangely not so gagaku-ish as other Gagaku pieces. Scholars say it is because Etenraku is an orchestralised version of a dance music of Japanese origin. There is surely the legend you mentioned about its composer, but it is thought to be a fabricated legend. Bogus stories are useful for creative composeres to make their own pieces seem authentic especially when they are in rather conventional communities.

[Ecthelion008]

A world of scholarship begs to differ with you

[Fishroads]

the music sounds like traditional japanese wedding

the same music or different?

[yancha81]

i think it's the same. They are using this in wedding seremonies.. and probably I'll use it mine as well. ^^

[alestane]

This type of music is used in shinto ceremonies (including weddings indeed).

[himajin143]

same music.

We can hear this song when we go to shinto shrine.

But there are great number of "Etenraku".

(They have each melody)

I do not know which Etenraku this is.

[brunetka753]

I love it! It makes me think about so many things...

[yawato]

美しゅう御座います。

[letufi]

beautiful bonsai and music!!!

[kmitsu1]

w00t

however thats not a bonsai

its just a cherry tree

[letufi]

ok, it's very beautiful all the same-

yes I know it's a blossom cherry tree, you call them sakura-

music remeber´s me the fox wedding in Akira Kurosawa's dream-

thanks for the post-

[Truedantalion]

Hey, cool - I got this piece on LP!