Klarinet Archive - Posting 000746.txt from 2001/03

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Ruse for Rank Commercialism.
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:08:03 -0500

<><> Kevin Fay wrote:
What's an Ongaku?

>From http://www.kisho.co.jp/Books/book/chapter10.html

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The word ne (roughly translated as sound, but slightly different in
meaning, as well shall see below) is another important key word for
explaining the continuity that the Japanese feel with nature. Ne,
however, describes not a visual but an aural continuity. The word for
music in Japanese, ongaku, means to enjoy sound (on is another way to
pronounce ne, and gaku means to enjoy). Neiro, or sound color, means the
nature of quality of sound. And when things don't work out well and we
are reduced to desperate straits, we "raise a cry" (ne o ageru).
In Japanese homes and restaurants, the custom of keeping insects in
cages so that guests can listen to their cries and be reminded of the
season still exists. To the Japanese, the cries of insects are not
noise; they are the ne of the insects, a natural music. The single word
ne comprises the music created by human beings and the music of nature,
the cries of insects. Ne is an intermediate zone between simple sound
and music. And this is further evidence that the Japanese prefer to live
as friends with nature, linked intimately to it.

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