Miyakobushi

Japanese: 都節 - みやこぶし

A term used in Japanese music by Uehara Rokushiro in his book Zokugaku Senritsu Ko (Thoughts on Folk Music), it refers to the scales used mainly in urban music of the early modern period. He argued that Japanese scales are pentatonic and divided into two types: Miyako-bushi and Inaka-bushi (scales used in folk songs, etc.), naming the former as Yinsen and the latter as Yangsen. Later, Koizumi Fumio focused on the existence of tetrachords in the perfect fourth frame, and revealed that there are four types of tetrachords depending on the position of the middle note: Minyo, Ritsu, Miyako-bushi, and Okinawa. He also clarified that the Miyako-bushi tetrachord is the one that often appears in early modern Japanese music, and that the Miyako-bushi scale is formed by combining them.

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Japanese:

日本音楽用語。上原六四郎が『俗楽旋律考』のなかで用いた言葉で，主として近世の都市の音楽で用いられる音階をさす。彼は日本の音階は五音音階であり，都節と田舎節 (民謡などの音階) の2つに分けられると説き，前者を陰旋，後者を陽旋と名づけた。のちに小泉文夫は完全四度枠のテトラコードの存在に注目し，その中間音の位置により民謡，律，都節，沖縄の4種のテトラコードがあること，そのうち近世邦楽によく現れるのが「都節のテトラコード」であり，その接合により「都節音階」が成立することを明らかにした。

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