Yatarabyōshi - Yatarabyōshi

Japanese: 八多良拍子 - やたらびょうし

It is also written as Yatara-byōshi or Hattara-byōshi. It is one of the rhythms of Tang music (Tōgaku), a form of Japanese gagaku music. It has a meter in which 2 and 3 beats alternate and are repeated, i.e., 5 beats. The current rhythms are "Somakushiya no ha" (left-hand side), "Baironha", "Genjōraku", and "Batou" (all right-hand side) in bugaku-dachi. When "Kanjōraku" and "Batou" are used in bugaku music on the left side or performed in kangen-dachi, and when "Somakushiya no ha" and "Baironha" are performed in kangen-dachi, they are all converted to Hayatashi rhythm.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

夜多羅拍子，八多羅拍子とも書く。日本の雅楽の唐楽曲(唐楽)の拍子のひとつ。2拍と3拍が交替反復する拍節，すなわち5拍子で，舞楽立（ぶがくだち）の《蘇莫者破（そまくしやのは）》(左方（さほう）)，《陪臚破（ばいろのは）》《還城楽（げんじようらく）》《抜頭（ばとう）》(以上右方（うほう）)が現行。《還城楽》と《抜頭》が，左方の舞楽に用いられる場合と管絃立（かんげんだち）で演奏される場合，および《蘇莫者破》と《陪臚破》が管絃立で演奏される場合は，いずれも早只拍子に転換される。

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