Music Research Center
The Music Research Center ( Japanese 音 楽 取 調 掛 , Ongaku Torishirabegakari ) was set up in Japan on October 23, 1879 and renamed the “Office for Music Research” ( 音 楽 取 調 所 , Ongaku Torishirabesho ) in February 1885 . It was founded to introduce Western music to Japan and to develop a plan for music education in schools; as such it belonged to the Ministry of Culture . The Music Research Center at the suggestion of Isawa Shuji (1851-1917) and Megata Tanetarō set up (1853-1926) and went in 1887 as a forerunner of Tōkyō Ongaku Gakko ( 東京音楽学校 , dt. "Conservatory Tokyo") in the College of Arts Tokyo on .
overview
When the school system in Japan was reorganized in 1872 by the “Law on the School System”, singing lessons were already planned. At that time there was a lack of teachers and teaching materials for teaching. Izawa, who in 1879 suggested the formation of an office for systematic music research through his submission to the Ministry of Culture, was from 1875 to 1878 together with Takamine Hideo (1854-1910) and Kōzu Senzaburō (1852-1897) at the Bridgewater Normal School (today: the Bridgewater State University ) in Massachusetts . As the first head of the new office, he appointed his Boston teacher Luther Whiting Mason and some Gagaku musicians, including his college friend Kōzu, Yamase Shōin (1845-1908), Uchida Yaichi , Shiba Fujitsune (1849-1917) and Ue Sanemichi (1851-1937 ), and opened teaching in 1880. Together with these musicians he compiled the "song collection for elementary school" ( 小學 唱歌 集 , Shōgaku shōkashū ), the first textbook for music lessons. Mason returned to America just two years after his call in 1872. In his place came the Prussian naval conductor Franz Eckert .
To find a workable method and compromise for music education, Izawa examined Western, traditional Japanese music ( Gagaku ), folk music, and Chinese music ( 清 楽 , Shingaku ).
literature
- Siegfried Borris (Hrsg.): Musical life in Japan in the past and present . Bärenreiter, Basel / Kassel / New York 1967, OCLC 5149845 .
Web links
- 小学 唱歌 集 初 編 . National Institute of Japanese Literature,accessed November 20, 2014(Japanese, Digitized Song Collection, Volume 1 of 3).
- Kimiko Hirata ( 平 田公子 ): 音 楽 取 調 掛 の 日本 音 楽 観 . (PDF) December 2012, accessed November 20, 2014 (Japanese, with an English summary).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 音 楽 取 調 掛 . In: ブ リ タ ニ カ 国際 大 百科 事 典 小 項目 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved November 20, 2014 (Japanese).
- ^ A b Siegfried Borris: Musical life in Japan. P. 42.
