If one hears taiko and shamisen, shakuhachi and koto, it sounds Japanese. The most obvious way in which to make music sound traditionally "Japanese" is to use traditional instruments, as in Okami or Muramasa. I would like to venture that, although Japanese traditional music has little direct influence on the majority of video game music, cultural tastes have led to a large degree of indirect influence. It might seem interesting or dull, beautiful in its transparency or dissonant in its idiom, but the prevailing impression will be one of utter distance from any music with which he or she is familiar. Most likely, the average video game music fan who has ventured to listen to Japanese traditional music finds it foreign. In spite of all that, Japanese traditional styles continue to mystify many.
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More than that, Hollywood movie scores and distributors of so-called "World Music" have brought many types of traditional music to the attention of the general public, and traditional instruments and styles are a staple of modern multiculturalism. After all, the principles behind language are similar between countries, and if Japanese art seemed utterly alien to westerners in the 19th century, it seems much less so after the impressionists, who were influenced by the lack of perspective and vibrant color of woodblock prints. Have you ever tried to listen to traditional Japanese music? Just out of curiousity, perhaps, or maybe because you thought that there could be some connection to the video game music that comes from the same country? Well, as travellers to Japan from the west in the 19th century discovered, the traditional music of the country seems easily as foreign as the language and the art, if not more so. The Influence of Traditional Japanese Music Editorial Written by Ben Schweitzer
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