Analyses of the World of Musico-Literary Quartets in the Mid-Twentieth Century

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370266
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: MAGOME Kiyoko 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 准教授 (60463816)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: カルテット / 弦楽四重奏 / 20世紀半ば / モダニズム

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, based on the fact that literary works evoking the image of the string quartet appeared almost simultaneously all over the world during the modernist period,“The World of Musico-Literary Quartets in the Mid-Twentieth Century" was explored. This Kaken research is the continuation of the previous one, “Synchronic Analyses of Modernist Musico-Literary Quartets” (2008-2012), and has also been followed by the next one, “Analyses of the Relationship between Visions of the Universe in the Ancient and Renaissance Periods and the Flowering of the Modernist Musico-Literary Quartets” (2018-2022).
The results of this research have been published as journal articles/book chapters in the United States and/or presented at international conferences every year.

Free Research Field

人文学