Re: [Shaku] Honkyoku as public display

From: Karl Signell (signell@cpcug.org)
Date: Wed Mar 16 2005 - 06:39:57 PST


At 03:56 PM 3/15/2005, Bruce Jones wrote:
>Are there traditions of "religious" music ... that deliberately
>don't involve any opportunity for an audience?

In the sacred mi-kagura of Japan, the orchestra plays music and the Emperor=
=20
plays the role of celebrant in a Shinto ritual. No one else attends.

(R. Garfias: =91The Sacred Mi-Kagura of the Japanese Imperial Court=92,=20
Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology, i/2 (1968), 149=9678)

Karl

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