Japanese Music
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...popular music heard at open-air festivals. The Japanese use two basic types of scale, both pentatonic. The first, used in sacred music and common to all of East Asia, has two modes ryo, the male mode, and ritsu, the female mode. The more frequently used...