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Shōmyō (声明) is a style of Japanese Buddhist chant, used mainly in the Tendai and Shingon sects. There are two styles: ryokyoku and rikkyoku, described as difficult and easy to remember, respectively.

Shōmyō, like gagaku, employs the Yo scale, a pentatonic scale with ascending intervals of two, three, two, two, and three semitones.

References

1. John Whitney Hall (1988). The Cambridge history of Japan. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521223520.
2. "Japanese Music". Cross-Cultural Communication: World Music. Green Bay: University of Wisconsin. Archived from the original on 2008-03-13.

Bibliography

• Hill, Jackson (1982). Ritual Music in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism: Shingon Shōmyō, Ethnomusicology 26 (1), 27-39

External links

• What Appears Through Chanting: Tendai Shomyo Ryokyoku
• http://jtrad.columbia.jp/eng/s_tendai.html
• http://www.eastvalley.or.jp/eng/kyoku.html
• http://sound.jp/tengaku/Shichseikai-e/shomyo-e4.html

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