Autumn Mountain Song

...The most famous one is the Tsugaru Mountain Song, originally a song sung by woodcutters while cutting down trees deep in the mountains and letting them float down the rapids and torrents of the mountains. It goes, "Iyaaaideyaanagoyaa 15yaa7gayaa. I'm climbing the mountain, and when I blow the flute, yaaa. All the pines on the peaks sway." It has a beautiful vocal tone with a sad melody in the inverted mode and the unique lily technique of Tsugaru. Since the early Meiji period, it has been sung mainly as a celebratory parlor song. There are also songs sung when cutting down bush clover or cutting down firewood for firewood and charcoal, such as the Autumn Mountain Song in Miyagi Prefecture and the Kakuma Cutting Song (Summer Mountain Song) near Yamagata City. [Asano Kenji]...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Autumn Mountain Song" is listed below.

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…とくに有名なのは《津軽山歌》で，元来は深山で伐った木を山中の急流や激流に流しながら歌われる樵夫（きこり）歌で，〈イヤァーイデヤァーナ五ャー　十五ャー七がャェー　山を登りに　笛　笛吹けばャェー　峰の小松は　みな　みな靡くャェー〉と，陰旋法の哀調のこもった中に，津軽独特のユリの技巧が加わった声回しの佳調であるが，明治初年ころからはもっぱら祝いの座敷歌として歌われている。また宮城県の《秋の山歌》や，山形市近郊の《かくま刈歌》(《夏の山歌》)のように，萩取りや薪･炭焼き用の柴木の木伐りの際に歌われる歌もある。【浅野 建二】。…

※「《秋の山歌》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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