19th-Century Music Culture of the Middle Classes and Opera Paraphrases

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18K00131
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 01050:Aesthetics and art studies-related
• Research Institution: Shizuoka University of Art and Culture
• Principal Investigator: Kamiyama Noriko 静岡文化芸術大学, 文化政策学部, 准教授 (90318577)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: オペラ編曲 / 19世紀 / ブルジョワ市民階級 / ピアノ / 編曲譜

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research, by focusing on opera arrangements for piano (such as opera-fantasies, -variations, -paraphrases, and arrangements of certain scenes from operas) and the publication of them from various cities, reveals the role the arrangements played in the musical lives of people in the first half of the 19th century Europe. In almost every case, the purpose of these arrangements was not to provide great profoundities and serious artworks, but to "sing" popular melodies of the operas in cantabile on the piano, to show the piano's potential as an instrument, and to bring pleasant music to the general ears of music lovers. They were much in demand in the musical lives of amateur musicians of the bourgeoisie.

Free Research Field

音楽学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は19世紀前半ヨーロッパの様々な都市に出回ったピアノのためのオペラ編曲譜を取り上げ、それらが音楽を身近に楽しむ市民階級の間で、彼らの音楽生活を豊かに彩る大きな役割を果たしていたことを明らかにした。とくに、音楽史の博物館に殿堂入りした芸術家の芸術作品だけでなく、後世の美的価値や歴史評価の陰に隠れてきた――しかし当時は音楽界の中心ジャンルだったもの（例えばグランド・オペラ）や、ヨーロッパ中で名声を博した編曲者（例えばタールベルク）の作業にも目を向けたことで、19世紀市民階級の日常音楽生活における編曲の実態に迫ることができた。