This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...involve an alteration in the fundamental second string. The principle of the bridge changes in the consecutive tunings is revealed in the name of the mixed tuning--Go-sagari roku-agari--used for facilitating the transitions between Iwato and Kumoi. Iwato is obtained from Kumoi by lowering the fifth ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...involve an alteration in the fundamental second string. The principle of the bridge changes in the consecutive tunings is revealed in the name of the mixed tuning--Go-sagari roku-agari--used for facilitating the transitions between Iwato and Kumoi. Iwato is obtained from Kumoi by lowering the fifth string a semitone, and raising the sixth a full tone; or, in terms of the diatonic scale, lowering the leading note and raising the tonic. And this is precisely the way in which Kumoi was obtained out of Hirajdshi: the leading note Gj of A major is lowered to; the tonic A is raised to B. In Japanese terms this application of the principle might be called san-sagari shi-agari. Here, then, we have the practical factor by which the sequence of scales was made; and if the first and second strings were not constant, it might be applied for the formation of all the other scales; thus, For making Kumoi from the normal, lower the 3rd string a semitone, and raise the 4th a full tone; For making Iwato from Kumoi, lower the 5th string a semitone, and raise the 6th a full tone; For making the next scale from Iwato, lower the 7th string a semitone, and raise the 8th a full tone; and so on. So much for the principal tunings. But the group of scales clustered round the C$ and Fjt of the first and second strings is not yet quite accounted for. There is the normal Fj& minor with its relative A major; secondly, there is the scale of the sub-dominant B minor with its relative D major; thirdly, again the scale of the sub-dominant E minor, with its relative G major. But these three relative major keys are, as far as I have been able to trace, quite ignored. Probably owing to the important position held by the second string, and for other reasons with which...
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