| Summary: | Up to now, analyses of shakuhachi koten honkyoku accentuated mainly the melodious component of musical structure. However, a no less important component of the musical structure of all Japanese traditional music is by all means also timbre (tone quality). In my research of the timbre of shakuhachi, I combined three major methodological approaches: Ethnomusicology, Music Theory and Music Acoustics. The ethnomusicological approach wascharacterised by close orientation on one interpretation tradition within the framework of the Kinko School, the Chikumeisha Goro Yamaguchi´s tradition. The positions of music theory appeared mainly as a result of deep structural analysis, which made it possible for detailed description of the musical structure oriented on the appearance of concrete playing techniques and their application to the individual phrases of each of the honkyoku compositions. Within the scope of musical acoustic approach, we jointly with colleagues from the HAMU sound studio did a series of spectral analyses of two matrices of shakuhachi basic tones and some playing techniques. The matrices were recorded by Vlastislav Matoušek and Christopher Yonhmei Blasdel. The spectral analyses fully confirmed the changes of timbre of the shakuhachi in Kinko honkyoku.
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