musical mode

...However, since the Meiji period, the distinction between the terms mode and scale has become ambiguous, and in many cases, the terms have been used almost synonymously, with the intone scale, which includes semitones, being called intone modes, and the Ryukyu scale being called Ryukyu mode. With the spread of Western music theory, the concept was established as a translation of musical mode, and when applied to Japanese music, it has been limited to the ritsusen and ryusen of gagaku. However, there are specific usages, such as the view taken by Tanabe Naoyuki that the scale of Japanese music is seven tones and the mode is five tones, and that the necessary tones are selected from the basic seven-tone scale, and the view taken by Matsumoto Taminosuke that there are no scales in Japanese music, and that all modes are linked to idiomatic expressions. ...

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…しかし明治時代以降，半音程をふくむ陰音階をも陰旋法と称したり，また琉球音階を琉球旋法とよぶなど，旋法と音階の用語の区別もあいまいで，多くの場合，ほとんど同義語に使われてきた。西洋音楽理論の普及とともに，モードmusical modeの訳語として概念が確定し，日本音楽に適用する場合は，雅楽の律旋，呂旋に限られるようになった。ただ特定の使い方としては，田辺尚雄のように日本音楽の音階を7音とし，旋法を5音とし，基本の7音音階から必要な音を選び出す考え方や，松本民之助のように日本音楽には音階は存在せず，すべて慣用句に結びついた旋法であるとする立場などがある。…

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