Girolamo Mei's Aesthetic Ideals reflected on His image of Ancient Music

• Project/Area Number: 17K02289
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Aesthetics and studies on art
• Research Institution: Seijo University
• Principal Investigator: Tsugami Eske 成城大学, 文芸学部, 教授 (80197657)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2021-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2020)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000); Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000); Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
• Keywords: ジローラモ・メーイ / アリストテレース / 『詩学』 / 『古代旋法論』 / アリストテレース『詩学』 / G. メーイ / メーイ，ジローラモ / メーイ / 西洋音楽理論史 / 美学史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Girolamo Mei is known in the history of Western music as a person who theoretically stimulated the birth of opera toward the end of the sixteenth century. This project aimed instead at clarifying his thought on ancient music as such. From my four years' analysis of his writings it has been made clear that he sometimes projected his own aesthetic ideals even where he seemed to be objectively talking about ancient music. This result made a part of my English book: Girolamo Mei: A Belated Humanist and Premature Aesthetician, published by Keiso Shobo in 2021 with a JSPS grant.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

メーイはアリストテレース『詩学』の試作手段論とカタルシス概念について，現代から見ても優れた解釈を示している．また，芸術分類論や悲劇上演論において，彼は時代を数百年先駆ける思想を提示している．これは美学史内部に留まらず，広く人類の知的営為の歴史において注目されてよい事実である．それはとりもなおさず，同時代と後代の学者たちが，彼の先駆的思想を取り上げないという選択をしたことを意味するからである．

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Remaking an Ancient Poetic Theory into a Modern Aesthetic Thought: Girolamo Mei’s System of the Arts (2021)
  • Author(s): Tsugami Eske
  • Journal Title: Aesthetics Volume: 24 Pages: 1-13
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] メーイ作エピグラム「フュッリスについて」 (2020)
  • Author(s): 津上英輔
  • Journal Title: 『美學美術史論集』 Volume: 22
  • Open Access
• [Journal Article] メーイ美学思想の集大成としてのカタルシス解釈 (2020)
  • Author(s): 津上英輔
  • Journal Title: 成城美学美術史 Volume: 26 Pages: 19-43
  • NAID: 120006886473
  • Open Access
• [Journal Article] 古代理論を近代思想に仕立て直すージローラモ・メーイの芸術体系論ー (2018)
  • Author(s): 津上英輔
  • Journal Title: 美学 Volume: 252 Pages: 13-24
  • NAID: 130007659236
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Aesthetics of Tragic Katharsis: Girolamo Mei’s Interpretation (2019)
  • Author(s): TSUGAMI Eske
  • Organizer: ICA 2019 , Belgrad
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 詩作する人文主義者メーイ：エピグラム「フュッリスについて」の分析から (2018)
  • Author(s): 津上英輔
  • Organizer: 美学会
• [Presentation] 平和と美学：感性は戦争に加担する (2018)
  • Author(s): 津上英輔
  • Organizer: 成城大学美学美術史学会第６回例会
• [Book] Girolamo Mei: A Balated Humanist and Premature Aesthetician (2021)
  • Author(s): Tsugami Eske
  • Total Pages: 221
  • Publisher: 勁草書房
  • ISBN: 9784326800636