謡

Meaning

謡 centers on vocal musical expression: a song, the act of singing, or a specific style like noh chanting. The ballad sense is a narrative song.

• 歌謡かよう
  N2

  song; ballad

• 民謡みんよう
  N2

  folk song; popular song

• 童謡どうよう

  children's song; nursery rhyme

• 謡うたい

  noh chanting; noh chant

• 謡曲ようきょく

  noh song

• 歌謡曲かようきょく
  N1

  kayōkyoku; form of Japanese popular music that developed during the Showa era

• 俗謡ぞくよう

  popular song; ballad; folk song; ditty

• 俚謡りよう

  ballad; folk song; popular song

• 古謡こよう

  traditional (folk) song

• 地謡じうたい

  noh chorus

• 地謡前じうたいまえ

  stage left (on a noh stage), in front of the chorus

• 地謡座じうたいざ

  noh chorus seating area; side stage (noh)

• 地謡座前じうたいざまえ

  stage left (on a noh stage), in front of the chorus

• 抒情歌謡集じょじょうかようしゅう

  Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

• 抒情民謡集じょじょうみんようしゅう

  Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

• 日本歌謡芸術協会にっぽんかようげいじゅつきょうかい

  Japan Popular Music Writers Association; JPM

• 民謡音階みんようおんかい

  folk scale (anhemitonic pentatonic scale: mi, so, la, ti, re)

• 神謡集しんようしゅう

  collection of mythology

• 童謡殺人どうようさつじん

  nursery rhyme murder (e.g. in murder mystery fiction)

• 素謡すうたい

  bare noh chanting; vocal-only noh theater performance, with no dancing or instruments; unaccompanied utai

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