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Folk Songs of Japan. Compiled, edited, and arranged by Donald P. Berger, New York: Oak Publications, 1972. 152 pp., with 54 songs, 24 photographs, map of Japan, prologue, introduction, notes on the songs, pronunciation guide, epilogue, and bibliography.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2019

Elizabeth May
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Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 5 , 1973 , pp. 191 - 192
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Copyright © 1974 By the International Folk Music Council 

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1. Berger, Donald Paul, “The Nohkan: Its Construction and Music,” Ethnomusicology, 9 (1965): 221–239.Google Scholar

2. In Hattori's, Ryutaro Thirty-one Japanese Folk-Songs (Tokyo: Nippon Times, 1950), I found a few songs related either in music or text to those in Berger's book, but there are always differences, usually so great as to suggest a subject for further inquiry.Google Scholar

3. Since the English is not accommodated to the musical line, the songs must be sung in Japanese, a good thing.Google Scholar