Japanese music Shomyo Sakura farmer's music Gagaku transparency cycle-of-fifth theory linearity in-sen scale jeongak 1. It is basically meditative in character and its performance is highly ritualized 2. It is a female scale which contains minor notes. 3. A Japanese folk song depicting spring, the season of cherry blossoms. 4. It is a classic Buddhist chaning in Japan. 5. An oldest surviving Japanese court music 6. It expresses the lives of farmers through its exciting rhythms. 7. It desires the system of pitch generations and pentatonic scale. 8. Focuses on the individual instruments. 9. it emphasizes on the melody 10. These are majestic court music played at important events at the royal palace
