gagaku
noun
ga·ga·ku gä-ˈgä-(ˌ)kü 
: the ancient court music of Japan
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Salons and concerts were organized; at one, Cage and Henry Cowell presented an evening of Japanese gagaku, and, at another, the German-Japanese poet Sadakichi Hartmann, formerly a Village mainstay, impersonated Edgar Allan Poe. 
Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 July 2022
Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 July 2022 Word History
Etymology
borrowed from Japanese, from ga "elegance" + gaku "music"
First Known Use
1929, in the meaning defined above