- Shomyo
Shōmyō ( ) is a style of
Japan eseBuddhist chant , used mainly in theTendai andShingon sects. [cite book|title=The Cambridge history of Japan |author=John Whitney Hall|year= 1988|publisher=Cambridge University Press |id=ISBN 0521223520|url= http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0521223520&id=x5mwgfPXK1kC&pg=RA4-PA497&lpg=RA4-PA497&dq=Shomyo+buddhism&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=P6ZZcBC1VrqXacdICqCgKzMDr0U] There are two styles: "ryokyoku" and "rikkyoku", described as difficult and easy to remember, respectively.Shomyo, like
gagaku , employs theYo scale , apentatonic scale with ascending intervals of two, three, two, two, and three semitones. [cite book|url=http://www.uwgb.edu/ogradyt/world/japan.htm |chapter=Japanese Music|title=Cross-Cultural Communication: World Music |publisher=University of Wisconsin|place=Green Bay ]References
External links
* [http://www.sukothai.com/Xebec-sakurai.html What Appears Through Chanting] : Tendai Shomyo Ryokyoku
*http://jtrad.columbia.jp/eng/s_tendai.html
*http://www.eastvalley.or.jp/eng/kyoku.html
*http://sound.jp/tengaku/Shichseikai-e/shomyo-e4.html
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