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1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Research on Modern Gagaku Tradition : Focusing on Activities of the Music Department of the Imperial Household Ministry 1868-1945

Research Project

Project/Area Number 10610050
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 美学(含芸術諸学)
Research InstitutionShowa University of Music

Principal Investigator

TSUKAHARA Yasuko  Showa University of Music, Dept.of Music, Associate Professor, 音楽学部, 助教授 (60202181)

Project Period (FY) 1998 – 1999
Keywordsgagaku (Japanese court music) / court musicians / modern history of Japanese music / reorganization of traditional music / 西洋音楽 / 伝承制度
Research Abstract

This research project dealt with the history of the modern gagaku, focusing on the activities of the Music Department of the Imperial Household Ministry (Kunaisho Gakubu) 1868-1945.
After the Meiji Restoration, Meiji Government established Gagaku Kyoku (later Kunaisho Gakubu) within the Cabinet, to accomplish the quick reorganization of the system for gagaku transmission. As the results, the court musicians were given responsibilities for the whole gagaku tradition. In 1874, they were also required to study Western music to perform at the occasions of new court ceremonies adopted from the West.
This tradition of modern gagaku as organized around the body of professional musicians of the old gagaku fimilies based at the Music Department was maintained until the end of World War II.There were a number of contributing elements besides the musicianship of musicians themselves : the seven-year specialist curriculum designed to produce successors to the heritage, which began in 1884 and completely revised in 1914 ; and the system for financial support of the families involved in its transmission, which commenced in 1884.
Deaths during the war and the loss of younger members of gagaku families to other professions in the succeeding years, as well as reforms within the bureaucracy which resulted in a major reduction in number of musicians employed, brought the tradition to a new turning point in the post-war years.

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All Publications (3 results)

  • [Publications] 塚原康子: "明治の宮中行事再編と雅楽家(伶人)の西洋音楽兼修"異文化交流と近代化-京都セミナー1996-(大空社). 214-221 (1998)

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  • [Publications] 塚原康子: "明治3年雅楽局設置前後"昭和音楽大学研究紀要. 18号. 21-38 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 塚原康子: "明治前期の新しい音楽表現-讃美歌・唱歌・軍歌-"昭和音楽大学研究紀要. 19号. 17-43 (2000)

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Published: 2002-03-26  

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