miyako-bushi scale
A traditional Japanese hemitonic pentatonic scale with intervals corresponding to mi, fa, la, ti, do. Used in music theory and ethnomusicology.
The miyako-bushi scale is one of the pentatonic scales often used in traditional Japanese music.
This piece is composed based on the miyako-bushi scale.
The Ryukyu scale is another Japanese pentatonic scale, but with a different interval structure (do, mi, fa, so, ti) compared to the miyako-bushi scale.
The min'yō scale is a pentatonic scale used in Japanese folk songs, with intervals do, re, mi, so, la, differing from the miyako-bushi scale's characteristic half-step intervals.
Compound of 都節 (miyako-bushi, a style of traditional Japanese music) and 音階 (onkai, 'musical scale'). The term is a musicological coinage describing a specific pentatonic scale pattern.