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2014 Workshop Season
Since 2003 Theatre Nohgaku has hosted workshops for poets, playwrights and other writers, as well as musicians and performance artists to help them better understand Japanese noh and to assist them in using noh in their own artistic pursuits. We … Continue reading
Posted in Costume Workshop, Music Workshop, Workshops, Writer's Workshop
Tagged architectures of poetry and time, costume workshop, david crandall, fukuyama, hosho-ryu, kita-ryu, kotsuzumi, kyoto, monica bethe, music workshop, noh music, nohkan, oshima noh theatre, otsuzumi, poetry, richard emmert, sasaki noh workshop, sound and silence, spoken word, taiko, theatre of yugen, writer's workshop
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Not noh, but Not not noh
Contributed by Michael Gardiner In my recent, more analytic posts, there was some semblance of logic and/or method, however ill-formed. But today I’m going to try and talk about my own music and noh. A dangerous topic, and by all … Continue reading
Time and its Double: An Alchemical Inquiry
Contributed by Michael Gardiner That the process of the universal or truth—they are one and the same thing—is transversal relative to all available instances of knowledge means that the universal is always an incalculable emergence, rather than a describable structure. … Continue reading
Posted in Noh Music
Tagged ars nova, elliot carter, hayashi, issei, kotsuzumi, noh, noh music, otsuzumi, pierre boulez rituel, sashi, transversal system, transversal time, unmatched rhythm, waki
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Atsumori (敦盛): Otoko-Mai (男舞)
Video of the otoko-mai from the takigi noh performance of “Atsumori,” Bloomsburg Town Park August 3, 2012. Performed as part of the Noh Training Project under the auspices of the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble (and the cooperation of Bloomsburg University of … Continue reading
Posted in Atsumori, Performances
Tagged atsumori, chu-no-mai, Genpei War, heike, minamoto, noh dance, noh music, noh theatre, Noh Training Project, otokomai, Renshô, samurai, taira no atsumori, takigi noh, theatre nohgaku, 敦盛
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The Look of the Feel (Pt. IV)
Contributed by Michael Gardiner (Part IV of A few thoughts on instrumental tone-color and the noh spectrum.) Figure 1 Tone-color Profile of the Kotsuzumi Although the kotsuzumi is smaller in size than the ōtsuzumi, figure 1 shows that the pitch … Continue reading
Funabenkei, Final Scene
Video of the spirit of Tomomori attacking Yoshitsune and Benkei in their boat. The final scene from the takigi noh performance of “Funabenkei,” Bloomsburg Town Park, 2009. Performed as part of the Noh Training Project under the auspices of the … Continue reading
Posted in Performances
Tagged benkei, funabenkei, hayashi, kotsuzumi, noh, noh music, Noh Training Project, nohkan, otsuzumi, taiko, takigi noh, theatre nohgaku, tomomori, yoshitsune
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The Look of the Feel (Pt. III)
Contributed by Michael Gardiner (Part III of A few thoughts on instrumental tone-color and the noh spectrum.) Nohkan There are numerous scholarly sources describing the construction and basic principles of the noh flute, so I will forego such commentary here. … Continue reading
Posted in Noh Music
Tagged funabenkei, hagoromo, hishigi, kotsuzumi, ma, matsukaze, michael gardiner, music timbre, noh, noh music, noh theatre, nohkan, otsuzumi, spectral analysis, spectrographic image, theatre nohgaku, yoin
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The Look of the Feel (Pt. II)
Contributed by Michael Gardiner (Part II of A few thoughts on instrumental tone-color and the noh spectrum.) To look at the musical colors of noh I will use spectrographic images, which allow one to discuss in detail elements of the … Continue reading
Posted in Noh Music
Tagged formants, funabenkei, hagoromo, hayashi, kakegoe, matsukaze, michael gardiner, music timbre, noh, noh music, nohkan, otsuzumi, spectral analysis, spectrographic image, theatre nohgaku
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The Look of the Feel (Pt. I)
A few thoughts on instrumental tone-color and the noh spectrum Contributed by Michael Gardiner (Editor’s note: this entry is Part One in a series of entries wherein Dr. Gardiner discusses his work with the spectral analysis of noh music and … Continue reading
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Tagged kakegoe, michael gardiner, music timbre, noh, noh music, nohkan, spectral analysis, spectrographic image, subjective sound, theatre nohgaku, tone-color
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