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  2. Japanese musical scales - Wikipedia

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    A variety of musical scales are used in traditional Japanese music. While the Chinese Shí-èr-lǜ has influenced Japanese music since the Heian period, in practice Japanese traditional music is often based on pentatonic (five tone) or heptatonic (seven tone) scales. [1] In some instances, harmonic minor is used, while the melodic minor is ...

  3. Ritsu and ryo scales - Wikipedia

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    The ritsu scale is the voice of the male phoenix, yang, being, the voice that ascends from above and is inhaled breath, emerging from the ki while the ryo scale is the voice of the female phoenix, yin, nothingness, the voice that ascends from below and is exhaled breath, emerging from the breath; probably indicating that ritsu is vertical and ryo is horizontal.

  4. Traditional Japanese music - Wikipedia

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    Musicians and dancer, Muromachi period Traditional Japanese music is the folk or traditional music of Japan. Japan's Ministry of Education classifies hōgaku (邦楽, lit. ' Japanese music ') as a category separate from other traditional forms of music, such as gagaku (court music) or shōmyō (Buddhist chanting), but most ethnomusicologists view hōgaku, in a broad sense, as the form from ...

  5. Music of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The oldest forms of traditional Japanese music are: shōmyō (声明 or 聲明), or Buddhist chanting; gagaku (雅楽), or orchestral court music; both of which date to the Nara (710–794) and Heian (794–1185) periods. [3]

  6. Shakuhachi musical notation - Wikipedia

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    Shakuhachi score Myoan-ji fingering chart. Shakuhachi musical notation is a traditional tablature-style method of transcribing shakuhachi music.. A number of systems exist for notating shakuhachi music, most of which are based on the rotsure (ロツレ) and the fuho-u (フホウ) systems.

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  8. Japanese mode - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese mode is a pentatonic musical scale commonly used in traditional Japanese music.The intervals of the scale are major second, minor third, perfect fifth and minor sixth (such as the notes A, B, C, E, F and up to A ja:ヨナ抜き音階.), essentially a natural minor scale in Western music theory without the subdominant and subtonic, the same operation performed on the major scale to ...

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