Kagura music - Kagura bayashi

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[Folk performing arts]
In the narrow sense, hayashi refers to musical performance mainly using instruments, but in folk performing arts, there are examples where chanting while beating drums at ritual sites to pray for the arrival of the gods and to celebrate the prosperity of the land and people is called shikibayashi or uchihayashi (see the Flower Festival in Kitashitara County, Aichi Prefecture).It is believed that there was a magical intention to use the power of words and instruments to activate the divine spirits and strengthen and extend the life force of things. It seems to be related to the words "hayasu" (to grow) and "fuyasu" (to multiply), but in festivals around the country, it developed as music to accompany the welcoming of the gods and the acts of divine possession at festival sites, and as music for the procession of the divine spirits. In the former, it became various kagura music such as Torimonokagura, Yutatekagura, and Shishikagura, while in the latter, it evolved into road music such as Matsubayashi and Sagimai, in which groups of people in beautiful costumes parade down the road to lively music, and yatai-bayashi such as Gionbayashi, in which floats and floats are paraded down the road with musical instruments played on them. Other examples include dance music played for singing and dancing at festival sites and Bon dances, and hayashida, which is used to accompany the work of rice planting with flutes and drums.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Kagurabayashi" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

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［民俗芸能］
　囃子は狭義には楽器主体の演奏をいうが，民俗芸能では，祭場で神の来臨を乞い，土地･人の繁栄を祝う文句を太鼓をたたきながら唱和することを〈しきばやし〉〈うちはやし〉(愛知県北設楽（きたしたら）郡の花祭)などと呼ぶ例があり，ことばや楽器の力で，神霊を発動させ，ものの生命力の強化･伸張をはかろうとする呪的意図があったとみられる。生（は）やす，殖（ふ）やすなどの語との関連が思われるが，各地の祭りでは，祭場での神迎え･神がかりのわざの伴奏や，神霊の渡御に奏する道行の囃子として発達し，前者では採物神楽（とりものかぐら），湯立神楽，獅子神楽などさまざまの神楽囃子となり，後者では美々しい装束の集団がにぎやかな囃子で道を練る松囃子や鷺舞（さぎまい）などの道中囃子や，山車（だし），屋台に楽器をのせて，それを奏しながら道を練る祇園囃子などの屋台囃子などに分化した。またほかに，祭場での歌舞や盆踊に演奏する踊り囃子や，田植の作業を笛･太鼓などではやしたてる囃子田などが伝えられた。…

※「神楽囃子」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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