Japanese Music & Musical Instruments

This interesting and authoritative book includes essential facts about the various forms of Japanese music and musical instruments and their place in the overall history of Japan.

Japanese Music and Musical Instruments has three main orientations:

• The history of Japanese music
• Construction of the instruments
• Analysis of the music itself.

The book covers in a lucidly written text and a wealth of fascinating photographs and drawings the main forms of musical expression. Many readers will f...