Japanese musical

scales

A variety of musical scales are used in

traditional Japanese music. While a
twelve-tone (dodecaphonic) Chinese scale
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, like in the famous piece
Sakura Sakura, is used, while the melodic
minor is virtually unused.

Pentatonic scales
Japanese mode: a pentatonic musical
scale with the intervals of the scale a
major second, minor second, major
third, minor second, and major third
Akebono scale
Hirajōshi scale
 In scale
Insen scale
Iwato scale
Ritsu and ryo scales
Yo scale

Further reading
Koizumi Fumio. Musical Scales in
Japanese Music. Heibonsha, Tokyo,
1977
Sir Francis Taylor Piggott, Thomas Lea
Southgate. The Music and Musical
 Instruments of Japan . B.T. Batsford,
1893
William P. Malm. Traditional Japanese
Music and Musical Instruments .
Kodansha International, 2000.
ISBN 4770023952, 9784770023957
Cargill Gilston Knott. Remarks on
Japanese musical scales. Asiatic Society
of Japan, 1891

References
1. Apel, Willi (1969-01-01). Harvard
Dictionary of Music . Harvard
 University Press.
ISBN 9780674375017.

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