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Kabuki vs Nagauta - What's the difference?

kabuki | nagauta |

As nouns the difference between kabuki and nagauta

is that kabuki is a form of japanese theatre in which elaborately costumed male performers use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies while nagauta is a form of traditional japanese vocal music, often used in kabuki theatre.

kabuki

English

(wikipedia kabuki)

Alternative forms

* Kabuki

Noun

(-) (often capitalized)
  • A form of Japanese theatre in which elaborately costumed male performers use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies.

    • nagauta

    English

    (wikipedia nagauta)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A form of traditional Japanese vocal music, often used in kabuki theatre.
  • *1997': She was to have four classes that morning—shamisen, dance, tea ceremony, and a form of singing we call '''''nagauta'' . — Arthur Golden, ''Memoirs of a Geisha (Vintage 1998, p. 55)