Sunday, April 24, 2011

Music Jargon in Japanese. Are there any different terminologies or words?

Question:


In Japanese are the notes all pronounced the same in English (A-G)? What about sharp and flat?

In chords, do minor and Major have different words than the English word? What about diminished, suspended, 7th's, 6th's, etc.?

Answer:


Actually, at school we study those notes by "do-re-mi", I don't know why Japanese music education introduced Italian (German?) method. And only those who play pops/jazz start reading by C, D, E---B.
As clasic(Western)/pops/jazz words are foreign ones we describe with the original pronunciation.
furatto (flat)
shaapu (sharp)
mainaa (minor)
mmejaa (major)
diminitsh (diminished)
sasupendid (suspended)
sebunsu (7th)
sikkus (6th)

As I studied in English, sometimes I get confused by Japanese jazz theory books. (e.g. for "on-chord like Bm7/D, Japanese says "fraction chord"!)
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Only Japanese traditional music uses Japanese wording. (as you know, scale itself is different)

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