A Cultural History of Postwar Japan by Shunsuke Tsurumi

Author:Shunsuke Tsurumi [Tsurumi, Shunsuke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Humanities
ISBN: 9780415564984
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-09-07T04:00:00+00:00

35 Shimura Takashi singing ‘The Gondola Song’ in the Kurosawa film Ikiru

This song too was very widely known and sung.

Next in this group of early Western-style melodies is Narita Tamez’s (1893–1945) ‘Hamabe no Uta’ (Song of the Seaside) in six-eight time, which, while not completely avoiding the fourth and seventh degrees, in fact basically uses this pentatonic scale.

10 Song of the Seaside (Hamabe no uta)

11 The Red Dragonfly (Akatonbo)

‘Akatombo’ (The Red Dragonfly) by Yamada Kosaku, on the other hand, uses the pentatonic scale strictly. In three-four time, it is a popular children’s song.

12 If you go to the sea…(Umi yukaba)

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