It is most effective when traditional instruments, such as the samisen, are used. |
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Special students, myself included, dressed in matsuri coats and played the large taiko drums, while others placed samisen and fue for the crowds. |
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She turned her head slightly and noticed a samisen propped up against one corner of the room. |
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The essential difference between them and the samisen melody is that they do not seem aurally to have the same first beat. |
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The violin and the Indonesian rebab are bowed lutes, and the Japanese samisen and the Western guitar are plucked lutes. |
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So they left the company of the light and music of the Tea House and samisen and trudged back into the darker, quieter, and somehow muddier streets that lead from the town. |
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It has been noted that certain styles of samisen music had been able to create concert repertoires disconnected from dance or party accompaniment. |
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The highly formal tradition of Japanese Nō drama incorporates music as an integral feature, usually performed by flute, a variety of stringed instrument called the samisen, drums, and singers. |
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The standard instrumentation today consists of a koto player who also sings, along with performers on a three-stringed plucked samisen lute and an end-blown shakuhachi flute. |
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The patterns of that style follow closely the rhythm of the samisen part. |
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