What are the scales commonly used in traditional Japanese songs?

1. Japanese folk song quartet sequence: c-be-f.

2. Du Jie Four Series: C-BD-F

3. rhythm fourth tone series: C-D-F

4. Ryukyu four-tone system: C-E-F E-F.

Related introduction:

The main elements of Japanese scales are that the first and last nuclear tones (referring to the frame tones that constitute a quartic series) are a quartic series with a note inserted in the middle. According to the classification of the main music types of different quartet series, we can divide them into four types of intermediate sounds in different positions, namely Japanese folk quartet series, Du Jie quartet series, rhythm quartet series and Ryukyu quartet series.

Extended data

Japanese traditional music is called Bangle in Japanese. Usually, "foreign music" is used as an antonym, which refers to traditional Japanese music except western music. Compared with western music, the seven-tone scale of modern Bangle is a five-tone scale (only Fallas), and the beat of Bangle is mostly even beat of 24 beats, with almost no odd beat, more acoustic music and less instrumental music.

Uehara's exposition in Famous Songs of Pop Music (1895) may be the first comprehensive exposition of Japanese scales by using modern scientific methods. Among them, Japanese scales are divided into "Tian She Festival" and "Du Jie Festival", each of which has an ascending shape and a descending shape. "Tian She Festival" refers to the scale of rural folk songs, and "Du Jie Festival" refers to the scale of urban songs.