List of all pieces in Etudes for SATB Chorus＊The rehearsals don't need to be done according to the following order of the list. Feel free to choose pieces and practise depending on any categories and themes.

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10Japanese modes

Minor pentatonic (Japanese niro-nuki scale)

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Ritsu pentatonic / Mixolydian mode

Dotted Rhythms peculiar to warabe-uta (children songs)

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Mirror-image canon / Canon imitating the figures in the tonal chords

115-Various (except Japanese) modes / Church modes

Dorian mode

Fowls

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Snow is melting

Japanese modes

Tonality / Homophony

Minor pentatonic (Japanese niro-nuki scale)

Major key / Authentic cadence

Changes of modes / Shift from modality to tonality

HemiolaParallel organum / Landini cadence

Construction of pure triads / Practise of the changes of solfa notation by modulation

Construction of the perfect intervals / Progression through the interval of the perfect fifth /4The Earth

Various (except Japanese) modes / Church modes

Dorian mode / Ritsu (Japanese seven-tone gagaku ) mode

1Whales

Various canons

Major key

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Edo Lullaby

Japanese modes

Miyako-bushi pentatonic

Homophony / Polyphony / Phrygian modal cadence (Japanese modal cadence)

Major key

Madrigalesque pieces / Internal changes / Parallel translation of chords

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At the Zoo

A Rabbit (S.TANIKAWA)
Little Birds SingI-Ro-Ha-Ni, Tsuneko-san
Oinari-san at Matsuyama

2Seven Herbs

1A Cradle Song of Mōshi

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Various canonsVarious canons

Tonality / Homophony
Various canonsJapanese modes

Tonality / Homophony

Where Has Your Father Gone?

Various canons

A Frog Looks up at the SkyVarious canons

The First StarPainJapanese modes

Tonality / Homophony

Tonality / Tonal polyphony / Modal homophony3

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In the water

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Various canons1

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Modes / Canon imitating the figures successively / Consciousness of the beginning of imitation / Phrygian cadence

Dorian mode

The Light

voicesDorian and Aeolian mode

Various (except Japanese) modes / Church modes

3

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AquariumJapanese modes

No. ofPalindromic music

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The LoachIntervals of just intonation

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Dorian and Aeolian mode / Minor key

1

Other Themes

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Construction of intervals in relation to the fixed points / Transposition

Various (except Japanese) modes / Church modes

18Easy pieces specific to the intervals of just intonation

Major pentatonic (Japanese yona-nuki scale)Time

15Trees

Introduction /Sound Structure31

3Rain (S.TANIKAWA)

Category

Vol. ofMixolydian mode

Japanese and Western modes / The axis system
Canon repeating the same figures successively

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5782112-110119Transposition / Changes of modes

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Canon repeating almost the same figures successively / Construction of the perfect fifth

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Minor pentatonic (Japanese niro-nuki scale)

Canon repeating the same figures successively / Canon imitating the figures with the intervals of the fifth

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Major key

Authentic chord progression / Construction of tensive chords with the intervals of more than the seventh

463

Folksong pentatonic

Folksong pentatonic

Miyako-bushi pentatonic / Ritsu pentatonic

Polytonality

Ryukyu pentatonic

Miyako-bushi pentatonic

Major key2

Tō-slope, Mima-slope

Japanese modes / Harmonic linkage

Dichord

3Autumn and Cosmoses

Various (except Japanese) modes / Church modes

Dorian, Aeolian, and Phrygian mode / Hexatonic

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A Ladybird (M.MADO)

Japanese modes / Harmonic linkage

Dichord / Tritonic / Trichord / Tetrachord

2My Heart

Various (except Japanese) modes / Church modes

Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian and Mixolydian mode / Diatonic scale

3

My Hobby

Tonality / Tonal polyphony / Modal homophony

Major key

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Nuts

Japanese modes / Harmonic linkage

2Good Weather

Tonality / Tonal polyphony / Modal homophony

3

A Temple in Snow

Harmonic series

Canon repeating the same figures successively

Dotted rhythms peculiar to warabe-uta (children songs) / Canon repeating the same figures successively /Irregular times formed by words

Introduction of polytonality / Method of solmization

Transposition / Canon imitating the figures in Aeolian mode

Construction of pure triads / Open and close harmony / Modulation

Warabe-uta style / Canon imitating the figures successively with the intervals of the prime, the fourth, the fifth,
and the eighth / The axis system

Construction of perfect intervals and triads / Phrygian modal cadence

Dotted rhythms peculiar to warabe-uta / Canon repeating the same figures successively /Canon imitating the figures with the interval of the fifth
Changes of modes / Modal harmonic progression

Authentic chord progression / Construction of tensive chords with the intervals of more than the seventh /Beautiful expression of the clash of the second intervals

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Minor pentatonic (Japanese niro-nuki scale) / Polytonality /Construction of perfect intervals / Method of solmization / Phrygian modal cadence /Major key / Broken chord / Trichord

Warabe-uta style / Canon / Tonality created by the authentic progression

470Construction of the perfect fifth / Modal harmonic progression

456

Diatonic scale

Harmonic series / Phrygian modal homophony /Aeolian, Mixolydian (Lydian) mode

Closely related supermajor third

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Minor pentatonic (Japanese niro-nuki scale) / Hexatonic /1

A Bamboo ShootJapanese modes / Harmonic linkage

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A Blue, Blue Autumn

Tonality / Tonal polyphony / Modal homophony

3

A Little Snow

Harmonic series

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A Rabbit (M.MADO)

Harmonic series

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Good Night

Tonality / Homophony

Major key / Tensive chords with the intervals of the seventh and more

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GoldfishHarmonic series

Harmonic series / Locrian, Mixolydian, and Dorian mode / Trichord

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Tane

Various (except Japanese) modes / Church modes

3

StarsTonality / Homophony

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An Angry Snail

Harmonic series

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To the Sea

Tonality / Tonal polyphony / Modal homophony

3

Light and Darkness

Atonality / Nontonality

1

A TreeTonality / Homophony

3

News

Tonality / Homophony

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After Spectacular Fireworks

Various modes / Tonal cadences

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Each Bird

Tonality

3

GentleTonality / Homophony

1

CosmosVarious (except Japanese) modes / Church modes

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An Evening Shower

Japanese modes

3

MaimaiAtonality / Nontonality

Why is it always?

Atonality / Nontonality

My Trek

Atonality / Nontonality

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1My Dear Sun, My Dear Rain

Huwa Haen

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Small Dried Sardines

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Deep in the Winter Woods

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Kappa and Sampei

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An EchoTonality / Tonal polyphony / Modal homophony

Folk music (Ainu)

Atonality / Nontonality

Atonality / Nontonality

Various scales with cadences
Atonality / Nontonality

Dorian and Phrygian mode

Major key
Harmonic series / Ionian and Mixolydian mode

Major and Minor key / Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Phrygian modeHarmonic series / Ionian, Dorian, and Lydian mode / Diatonic scale

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Closely related supermajor third / Transposition / Sonority of open and close harmony

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Canon / Mirror-image form progression

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Leap of fourth intervals
Precise singing of internal changes /Keeping alternative chords (nonharmonic and subdominant chords) tensive
Modal homophony / Tonality decided by modes

Construction of tensive chords with intervals of more than the seventh / Beautiful expression of the clashes of theVersion Version

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Swing rhythms / Practise of false relation / Bimodality

355

Construction of the completely harmonised perfect fifth / Being accustomed to non-classical harmonic progression--

Chromatic harmonic progression / Closely related third intervals / Bimodality

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Cultivation of a sense of intervals in nontonality

472

Authentic harmonic progression / Borrowed chords

Beautiful expression of the seventh chord / Harmonic balance of divided (simultaneous) notes of Bass part--Tonal and atonal harmonic progression / Polytonality

Six-part chorus with female three parts and male three parts--Ryukyu scale / Blue notes scale

Chord structures by duplicating the perfect fifth /Weak sense of tonality (C-dur) / Non-classical harmonic progression

Harmonic series / Diatonic scale / Ionian, Aeolian, and Mixolydian mode
Mixolydian, Ionian, and Aeolian mode / Hexachord
Linkage and reduplication of the perfect fifth progression / Hexachord /Dimished scale (1:2 scale)

Leap of the perfect intervals

Dorian, Aeolian, and Phrygian mode / Harmonic progression

second and the seventh intervals / Phrygian modal cadence with closely related third intervals

Canon imitating the figures with the intervals of the second, the fourth, and the fifth in modes /Closely related third intervals / Polytonality

Divided choirs responding almost the same melodic strands with each other / Modal homophony /Closely related third intervals / Harmonic Phrygian modal cadence in the axis system

Various rhythms including reverse dotted notes--

Timbre change by the changes of modes--Practice of broken chords and disjunct intervals--

Parallel translation of the melody of three upper parts

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Linkage of triads with one sustained tone / Fast and precise construction of chords

697

Two types of diatonic scale

Mirror-image form / Phrygian modal cadence

688

Diatonic scale / Chromatic scale

The axis system

691(Harmonic linkage with the fifth interval below)

Arrangement of Sonatine op.20-1 by Friedrich Kuhlau /Practise of instrumental (piano) melody
Authentic harmonic progression /Nonharmonic and transiently accidental chords
Mixolydian mode / Lydian modal pentachord / Diatonic scale
Minor pentatonic (Japanese niro-nuki scale) / Diatonic scale /Dichord of whole notes linked by seminotes / Lydian and Phrygian mode /Gamma chord (broken type)

Nontonality / Homophony / Free harmonic progression with
common notes suspended / Chromatic scale

Mixture of two types of diatonic scale and chromatic scale
Diatonic scale / Chromatic scale

Two types of Diatonic scale / Lydian modal tetratonic
Diatonic scale / Harmonic linkage of homophonyHarmonic progression by the axis system (authentic progression and Schwache bassschritte) /Closely related third intervals

Free canon / Broken chords of dur-moll created by Fibonacci sequence (Gamma chords) /Movement of melody / Precise control of intervals

Polymodality / Practise of false relation / Practise of staccato
Unclear tonal harmonic progression

Diatonic scale in C major / Construction of augmented intervals / Linkage of two types of diatonic scale

Mirror-image form / Closely related septimal major third / Closely related third intervals / The axis system /Phrygian modal cadence

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