Okinawan sept musicUmui, religious songs, shima uta, dance songs, and, especially katcharsee, lively celebratory music, were all popular.
Okinawan sept music varies from mainland Japanese sept music in several ways.
First, Okinawan sept music is ofttimes accompanied by the sanshin whereas in mainland Japan, the shamisen accompanies instead. Other Okinawan instruments include the Sanba (which display a clicking sound similar to that of castanets) and a sharp bird whistle.
Second, tonality. A pentatonic scale, which coincides with the major pentatonic scale of Western musical disciplines, is ofttimes heard in min'yō from the main islands of Japan, see minyō scale. In this pentatonic scale the subdominant and directive tone (scale degrees 4 and 7 of the Western major scale) are omitted, resulting in a musical scale with no half-steps between apiece note. Do, Re, Mi, So, La in solfeggio, or scale degrees 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6) Okinawan min'yō, however, is characterized by scales that include the half-steps omitted in the aforementioned pentatonic scale, when analyzed in the Western discipline of music. In fact, the most common scale used in Okinawan min'yō includes scale degrees 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
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