Basic study of piano accompaniment method

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K21312
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Education on school subjects and activities; Art at large
• Research Institution: Fuji Women's University
• Principal Investigator: shinkai makoto 藤女子大学, 人間生活学部, 准教授 (50469475)
• Research Collaborator: ISHII Rino ; KAWAHARA Tadayuki ; TORII Toshiyuki ; YOSHIDA Takayuki
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ピアノ伴奏 / ピアノ / 伴奏 / 歌曲伴奏 / 伴奏法

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This is a basic study which explores a piano accompaniment method useful for training skills of accompanists, teachers, and nursery school teachers in the making. The study focused on dynamics, and researched the piano accompaniment by accompanists living in Japan. The results are as follows: (1) when accompanist’s piano is analyzed, the peak of song’s phrases and the beat just before the peak are stressed; (2) when the volume of a song gradually increases (i.e., crescendo), the piano accompaniments begin the crescendo after the starting point of the crescendo leads to drop in volume; (3) when we compare the accompaniments by professional performers with the ones by armatures, the dynamic range of the former is wider; (4) the professional performer’s playing basically fits the volume of the music to the tone of the words of the song.

Free Research Field

ピアノ伴奏法