catalogue of video recordings (vhs, dvd) - The Japan Foundation

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Video catalogue (VHS, DVD) – Indexed by call number
Physical description: 1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (140 min.) :stereo
sd., col. ;1/2 in.+ 1 leaflet. Video Recording
System requirements:VHS (NTSC).
Summary: In this live performance, we gave our attention to various
techniques of Wadaiko (Japanese drums). Brilliant techniques of
individuals and the superb ensemble play in the first section, lovely
performance by children and performance by experts using there old
fashioned skills in the second section, and Eitetsu Hayashi's solo
performance against the single shamisen in the third section. Enjoy the
variety of percussion artistry which is slightly differenct from the
powerful performance by large group of players. -- from Container.
Language: Narrative soundtrack option in Japanese or English on disc
no. 1, 5 & 6. Captions in Japanese and English.
Summary: This collection includes pieces from all of the genres of
gagaku (court music) transmitted and performed by the palace
musicians today: kuniburi no utamai, or accompanied vocal music and
dance of indigenous origin employed in Imperial and Shinto ceremony;
kangen and bugaku, instrumental music and accompanied dance
deriving from the ancient performing arts of the Asian mainland; and
saibara and roei, genres of accompanied vocal music originating at the
Heian court of the ninth to twelfth centuries.
Call Number: 768.17 WAD
Title: Wadaiko o manabu | kikaku kōsei [by] Kankyō Wadaiko Gurūpu
21 ; shidō [by] Itaya Hiroya.| 和 太 鼓 を 学 ぶ | 企 画 ・ 構 成 [by] 環 境 和 太
鼓 グループ 21 ; 指 導 [by] 板 谷 弘 也 .|
Publisher: [Tōkyō?] : NHK Sofutowea : Nippon Kuraun [distributor],
c2001.|[ 東 京 ?] : 日 本 クラウン, c2001.|
Physical description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (ca. 40 min.) :sd., col. ;1/2
in.+ 1 booklet (9 p. : ill., music ; 19 cm.) Video Recording
System requirements:VHS (NTSC); HiFi.
Language: Soundtrack and text on booklet in Japanese.
Summary: Taiko teacher Itaya Hiroya takes us through the elementary
steps to learn to play the Taiko drums with a viewer-interactive video
that can be used for single people or entire classrooms. The video is
organised into chapters, the first covering correct grip for the sticks
(firm, but relaxed enough not to crack a raw egg!) and correct
drumming posture. Viewers are introduced to the “don sore” chanting
method used in place of sheet music in traditional Japanese taiko
drumming, and are invited to try playing along. Chapters two and three
introduce the viewer to two rhythm patterns, “yama” and “kawa”,
which they memorise and play along with the video. In Chapter four
viewers learn how to put different rhythms together and the
importance of feeling each others rhythm. Chapter five introduces the
concept of omote (front) rhythms and ura (underneath) rhythms and
how different ura rhythms – in this case played on the shime daiko, a
smaller taiko drum – can change the feel of the omote rhythm. In
Chapters six and seven, after being instructed that they must put their
feelings as well as sound into the kakiai (mix) of their taiko drumming,
viewers put their newly learned skills and memorised rhythms “yama”
and “kawa” together with omote and ura rhythms and play as an
ensemble with the matsuri daiko (largest taiko drum) and the shime
daiko (smaller taiko drum). This video is clear and easy for viewers to
understand and follow, and the interactive nature of it makes it an
excellent learning resource.
Call Number: 768.2 JAM 2
Title: Exploring fascinating sounds of Gagaku = Fushigina neiro :
Gagaku ni chosen (Kagai jugyo yokoso senpai)
Publisher: Tokyo : Japan Media Communication Center = JAMCO
Physical description: 42 min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack in English.
Summary: "Mr. Hideki Togi is an artist who inherited th etradition of
Gagaku, the ancient court music of Japan, and who has ushered in s
new phase in the world of music with his fusion of Gagaku and
synthesizer. He introduces the tone colors of Gagaku's characteristic
musical instruments, and explains that Gagaku is originated from acient
people's views of nature and the customs. The children try to express
through improvisation the sounds they have felt. At the end of the
class, they attend to perform the Gagaku classic "Etenraku" on
recorders and keyboard harmonies". -- FROM CONTAINER.
Restriction & Screening notes: Not for Loan. Licensed for public
screening at JF-Sydney
Call Number: 768.2 NIP
Title: Gagaku
Publisher: Tokyo : Nippon Columbia 1983
Physical description: 50 min Video Recording
System requirements:VHS (NTSC).
Language: Soundtrack in Japanese.
Call Number: 768.8 RYU
Title: Ryukyukoku matsuri daiko : geion no utage
Publisher: ? ?
Physical description: 120 min Video Recording
System requirements:VHS (NTSC).
Language: Soundtrack in Japanese.
Call Number: 768.2 GAG
Title: Gagaku : jūyō mukei bunkazai | ensō, Kunaichō Shikibushoku
Gakubu ; kikaku, seisaku, chosaku, Shimonaka Kinen Zaidan = Gagaku :
an important intangible cultural property of Japan | by the musicians
and dancers of Kunaichō Shikibushoku Gakubu (Music Department of
the Board of Ceremonies of the Imperial Household Agency, Tokyo).|
雅 楽 : 重 要 無 形 文 化 財 | 演 奏 , 宮 内 庁 式 部 職 楽 部 ; 企 画 , 製 作 , 著 作 ,
下 中 記 念 財 団 = Gagaku : an important intangible cultural property of
Japan | by the musicians ians and dancers of Kunaichō Shikibushoku
Gakubu (Music Department of the Board of Ceremonies of the
Imperial Household Agency, Tokyo).|
Publisher: Tōkyō : Shimonaka Kinen Zaidan, 2007, c1972.| 東 京 : 下 中 記
念 財 団 , 2007, c1972.|
Physical description: 8 videodiscs (DVD) (ca. 692 min.) :sd., col. ;4 3/4
in. + 2 commentary books (ill., music ; 21 cm.). Book
System requirements:DVD (NTSC). Soundtrack of DVD chiefly in
stereo, some in manaural
Call Number: 769 MOO
Title: Butoh - Piercing the Mask
Publisher: Bondi Beach, NSW : A. K. A. Productions ?
Physical description: 49 min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack in English.
Summary: "This documentary pirces the mystery and mystique of a
dance movement adored by the West and largely ignored by th
eJapanese. It used archival and contemporary footage of leading Butoh
Performance - Dairakudakan, Hakutobo. Kazu Ono - and interview with
Butoh specialists, to throw light on the essential Butoh themes of
darkness, violence and erotics - to get to the core of what Butoh is".
-- FROM CONTAINER.
Call Number: 769 NAD
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