Catalog of Shōdan: Entrance and Exit Music

Issei-music

Standard entrance music for the shite, often followed by an Issei-chant or a Sashi.

Kokaji does not include an Issei. Although Hashitomi does include one, it is unusually short since the shite is already on stage, hidden in the tsukurimono, so there is no need for extended entrance music.

As a point of comparison, we included a concert version of Hagoromo’s Issei-music, which is used for the entrance of the waki and wakizure. The nohkan player opens the shōdan with the hishigi pattern followed by the naka no takane and a variation on the roku no ge pattern, where he repeats the last three lines after having performed the initial four-line pattern. As a point of comparison, the nohkan player only plays the two-line mi roku no ge pattern in the short Hashitomi’s Issei-music.