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Excerpt from A Spectator's Handbook of Noh This does not mean that Noh is a simple art to master; quite to the contrary, it requires a lifetime of intensive practice, for Noh is a most exacting art, including elements comparable to opera (chanting), drama (miming), ballet (stylized dance forms), and orchestration (three, or four, instruments), plus the totally different art of impersonation in female, warrior, old-age, spirit, animal, demon, or heavenly-being roles. It is thus not surprising that a professional may be still considered immature at the age of fifty! The purpose of Noh is neither the portraying of a story nor the teaching of a moral, but simply the expression of beauty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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