Illustration: In a compact Japanese community concert room, four musicians perform as a string quartet: two violins, a viola, and a cello. Their coordinated bowing and attentive glances make the music-making unmistakable. Folding chairs hold a small audience in everyday clothes, with coats tucked under seats.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

洋よう楽がく

yougaku

Western music

Example sentences

大正たいしょうになると演歌師えんかしの中なかから洋楽ようがくの手法しゅほうを使つかって作曲さっきょくする者ものも現あらわれた。
In the Taisho period, some enka singers began to compose music using techniques of western music.
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その後ご、カラオケボックスとなり、学生がくせいまでその対象たいしょうが広ひろがると、歌謡曲かようきょくやヒット曲きょく、そして洋楽ようがくへと音源おんげんは広ひろがった。
After that, when the karaoke box emerged and students were targeted, the music source range included popular songs, hit songs, and Western music.
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また、1960年代以降ねんだいいこうに洋楽ようがくのロックや日本製にっぽんせいのフォークやニューミュージック、アイドル歌謡かようなどを聴きいていた戦後生せんごうまれの世代せだいが中年層ちゅうねんそうになっても演歌えんかに移行いこうせず、ロック・フォークなどを聴きき続つづけている者ものが多おおい。
In addition, generations born after the war have listened to western rock music, Japanese folk music, new music, and idol music since the 1960s, and many of them continue to listen to rock and folk songs, without shifting to the enka music, even after hitting middle age.
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Kanji in 洋楽

洋ocean; seaOnヨウ
楽music; easeOnガク・ラク・ゴウKunたのしい・たのしむ・このむ

洋よう楽がく

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Kanji in 洋楽

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