What I know after I searched

• Thai has more different types of music than Japan has


• Japanese music always played with dance, but in Thailand, they have some music which is only playing by people who play the instrument. (no dance)


• In Japan, there is no traditional music which performed before the game or some activities. Thailand, they have. (Before watch something, people stand etc…)


• Thailand got influenced by Indian Buddhism, but Japan got influenced by Chinese Buddhism and they got different types of instruments, even though it is in same Asia.


• Japanese traditional music doesn’t have lyrics, just a music, but some Thai’s traditional music has some lyrics that represent the land.


• Both Japanese and Thai music are slow and they use some strings, flutes, and drums to play music.


• Both Japanese and Thai change the way to play the music by knowing other countries’ culture. (Japan – Korea, China Thai – India, Cambodia)


• Both Japan and Thailand has some different types of music in different city.


• Muay Thai is the Thai traditional sports and it has the music while they are playing. If the fighting becomes harder, the music goes faster.


• Indian culture makes Thai’s music more influence and they got some instruments which looks like flute. In present, it develops more and it became Thai’s own music.


• There are many kinds of music in the different part in Thailand, such as Luuk Thung and Mor lam. Those are the rural music in Thailand that has some kinds of meaning in the song.


• During the Ayutthaya periods, the music expands and developed a lot and it was played by four to eight musicians.


• After the Bangkok periods starts, the music improved more especially the drum and it played by 12 musicians. People make some lyrics or song and make the music by themselves.


• Gagaku – One of the oldest Japanese traditional classsic music which has been performed at the Imperial court since the Nara and Heian period. Gagaku is divided in to Kagen (instrumental muscic) and Bugaku (dance accompined by gagaku). This came from China and Korea


• Taiko – is a Japanese drum. Its origins are uncertain, but it is around the 6th and 7th centuries. Korean influences followed, but the instrument and its music remained uniquely Japanese. Taiko continue to be used in the religious music of Buddhism and Shinto.


• Shakuhachi - Originally played as a part of a Zen service or practice and it was the favorite instrument among wandering Buddhist priests. It looks like recorder, but it is much bigger and hard to play.


• Characteristic - Traditional Japanese music is based on a five-note scale and has primarily two- and four-beat rhythms as opposed to a three-beat time. Most traditional music consists of songs with instrumental accompaniment, and there are very few purely instrumental compositions. The Japanese music always played with the dance.


• After the Meiji periods, the Western Culture came in and expand more Japanese music's life.