太食調調子

Japan / Imperial court music

Prelude in the taishiki mode

A chōshi is the free-rhythm prelude that sets the mode before a gagaku piece, passed between the wind instruments. From the 1941 set of recordings of Japanese traditional music produced by the Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, reissued by Arbiter Records.

Instruments
Shō 笙, Hichiriki 篳篥, Ryūteki 龍笛
Era
Heian-period repertoire
Recorded
1941
Length
3:11
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA · Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, Japanese Traditional Music (1941), excerpt released by Arbiter Records via Free Music Archive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US
Source
Internet Archive

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