(music) those pieces of traditional Japanese music composed primarily for the 尺八 (shakuhachi) flute, but also including the 胡弓(こきゅう) (kokyū, “Japanese bowed lute with three or four strings”), and the 琴(こと) (koto)

chorus

passion (song themed around the Passion of Christ)

kayōkyoku; Shōwa-era pop music

original song (basis of a cover or arrangement)

requiem (music composed to honor a dead person)

a bent or biased explanation or theory of something: a distortion, a twisted account of something

to explain or theorize about something in a bent or biased manner: to distort or twist a description of something

(grammar) declension

(especially Noh) song that is no longer performed