11th May – 皐月 Old Japanese music style has unique sounds that are very peculiar, this is because there is a Japanese musical scale exists. Older time before Western music spread in Japan, Japanese used to call the sound of Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti as ヒフミヨイムナ (Hi Fu Mi Yo I MuContinue reading “ヨナ抜き音階 (Yonanuki Onkai) – Japanese musical scale”
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9th February – 如月
演歌 （Enka） Japanese music genre. Familiar among older generation. this style of music generally gives nostalgic emotion to Japanese. Have you ever seen a Japanese singer with Kimono and sing with particular vibrato? Those people are singing one genre of music called ‘演歌 – Enka’. Contains unique Japanese emotions in the songs and some darkness, sentimentalContinue reading “9th February – 如月”
8th February – 如月
日本民謡 （Nihon-Minyou）- Japanese folk song Songs that has been sang in the particular area in Japan. Those songs tend to have a deep relation to the local region. Just like the other countries, Japan has its own folk songs (民謡 =Minyou) which were sang among ordinary people in the area. Nowadays, not many of them areContinue reading “8th February – 如月”
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