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Gagaku - court music - Coggle Diagram

- - - - used in choreographies
        
        bugaku dance pieces
      - 2 heavy lacquered beaters, LR sequence
      - use of separate skins to cover the surface of the drum
    - - smaller than dadaiko
      - different forms according to context of the performance
      - gagaku taiko
        
        tsuridaiko
        
        gakudaiko
      - 2 tacked heads, suspended on a stand, one side is struck
      - 2 sticks (bachi) with leather heads
    - - bronze gong, suspended on a stand
      - 3 different sizes depending on the context of the performance
      - 2 hard-tipped sticks
      - function of subdivising the musical phrase in beats
    - - leader drum, regulates tempo
      - horizontal, 2 lashed heads of deerskin
      - both heads are used
      - lighter drumsticks, rolls
        
        Mororai; slow roll with both sticks
        
        gradually quickening, left skin
        
        single tap with right stick
      - prominently used in free rhythmic sections, or to mark off the passage of a certain number of beats or phrases
      - featured in tôgaku