RESEARCH ON "MIKOSHI-UTA" IN ASO DISTRICT IN KUMAMOTO PREFECTURE

1992/93年，我对波特的便携式神社歌曲进行了调查。神社，这是开放的研究，是16。我收集了足够的歌曲音乐资料，并把它们录在了录像带和迷你磁盘上。调查结果显示，有12个神社有与阿索神社相同的传统歌谣，4个神社有自己的歌谣，笔者在收集、记录这些歌谣后，对它们的文本进行了整理、比较和考察。我把它们的音乐部分转录成西方记谱法。但我只能作音乐分析，并加上一些简单的民俗观点，结果如下：1）文本保留了中世纪世俗歌曲的诗歌形式和内容。2）歌曲的旋律与日本老调（GAGAKU）相同，并以元音和谐为特征。3）音调系统依赖于自然和声的完美四度、三度和六度的重复。4）歌曲从阿索神社传播到另一个地方的神社，但也有一些神社没有基于这一传统。5）我担心，由于年轻人的减少和口头传统大师的老龄化，音乐技能的继承情况逐年恶化。

In 1992/93 I have made a investigation into porter's songs of portable shinto shrine. The shinto shrine, which were open to research, are 16. I have got enough musical materials of the songs and recorded them on video-tape and minidisk-recorder(MD). As a result of survey, 12 shrines have the same traditional songs to the Aso Shrine, 4 shrines have own songs.After collecting and noting the songs, I put the texts of them in order, compared each other and inspected. I transcribed the musical parts of them into Western Notation. I, however, could only make the musical analysis and added some brief folkloristic views.Followings are the results :1) The texts preserve the poetic form and matter of medieval secular song.2) The songs have melodies, which are common with Japanese old tune(GAGAKU) and characterized by vowel harmony.3) The tone-systems depend on the repetitions of perfect 4th, and 3rd and 6th of natural harmonics.4) The songs are spread over from the Aso shrine to the shrines of another place, but there are some shrines which have not based on this tradition.5) I'm afraid that, on account of the reduction of young peoples and the old aging of the masters of oral-tradition, the situation to the succession for musical skills are getting worse year after year.