A Study on Acoustic Body of Folk Polyphonic Chorus in the Southwestern Italy

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25580027
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Aesthetics and studies on art
• Research Institution: Kyoto City University of Arts
• Principal Investigator: YAMADA YOICHI 京都市立芸術大学, 音楽学部, 教授 (80166743)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 多声部合唱 / サルデーニャ / ア・テノーレ / ア・クンコルドゥ / 音響身体論 / 民族音楽学 / 音楽人類学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I conducted intensive field research on unaccompanied multipart choral singing (called "a tenore" or "a concordu"), sung by four men in the central region of Sardinia Island, Italy. As a result of this work, the following features of the singing have become evident: (1) a dynamic polyphony is prduced through the parallel, colliding, and contrary motions of the four men’s voices; (2) chracteristic voices of four kinds strongly resound with each other among the bodies standing close together in a circle; (3) making the voices resound fundamentally brings about bodily pleasure to the singers. The fruits of this field research are to be included as a chapter in my book on the acoustic body, which will be published within this academic year.

Free Research Field

民族音楽学