Qualitative research on piano lessons: Musical Vocabulary of Miyoko Yamane-Goldberg

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K20770
• Project/Area Number (Other): 18H05560 (2018)
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund (2019); Single-year Grants (2018)
• Review Section: 0101:Philosophy, art, and related fields
• Research Institution: Shizuoka University
• Principal Investigator: Goto Yukari 静岡大学, 教育学部, 講師 (10732951)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: ピアノ・レッスン / 演奏解釈 / 質的研究 / 演奏 / 楽譜

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to clarify what kind of musical exchanges take place in highly specialized piano lessons for the purpose of training professional performers, and how they lead to the pupils' musical understanding.The project focuses on the lessons of Miyoko　Goldberg-Yamane (1939-2006), a pianist and teacher. Through the analysis of her lessons and interviews with her students, we learned that the teacher tried to convey her interpretation of her performance, which was originally difficult to put into words, to her students by using unique linguistic expressions, and that the students absorbed the teacher's interpretation both through verbal understanding (intellect) and through physical understanding (sensibility).

Free Research Field

演奏実践、クラシック音楽における演奏の教授について

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

クラシック音楽の演奏研究の蓄積は作曲家・作品研究と比べ圧倒的に少ない。そもそも演奏が一回的な性格を持ち研究対象となりづらい点に加え、演奏解釈が個人の感性に基づいて作品に付け加えたものに過ぎない、とみなされてきたことが要因である。しかし実際には、楽譜に書かれざる演奏解釈や演奏習慣が師から弟子へと口頭伝承される中で演奏の歴史は形成されており、本研究におけるレッスン研究により、言語化しづらい演奏解釈の教授プロセスの一方法論を提示することができた。