O "PERFECT MUSIC" IN THE FAR EAST

performing groups musical-choreographic action ceremony

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December 23, 2020

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The world significance of Chinese or Japanese art is now more or less universally recognized. Russian readers are well aware of articles and monographs on Japanese GA-Gaku music. The term gagaku is the Japanese pronunciation of two Chinese characters: ya + Yue, and this so-called gagaku music in Japan basically share a common ancestry with Chinese yayue. All of them mean "perfect", "correct music".