Staff
Takashi Numaguchi, Associate Professor
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Profile
Prof. Numaguchi, as a Faculty of Music at Tokyo University of the Arts, specializes in the history of Western music from the 18th and 19th century. He completed all of coursework for the doctoral program at Tokyo University of the Arts before withdrawing and completing his doctoral degree at Dortmund University (currently Dortmund Institute of Technology) (Dr. phil., 2006). After working as an associate professor at Kunitachi College of Music, Prof. Numaguchi came to Tokyo University of the Arts in 2020. He is interested in the history of music form and music form theory, as well as the history of various musical genres.
Current Research Topics
Prof. Numaguchi’s research focuses on Germanic-speaking composers from the 18th and 19th century, starting with Beethoven, and these composers’ compositions. He is also interested in the history of different musical genres, such as songs and chamber music.
Selected Publications
“Instrumentales Fugato im ‘Dona nobis pacem’ der Missa solemnis: Beethovens Dialog mit der barocken Tradition”, in Beethoven 3, Studien und Interpretationen (Akademia Muzyczna, 2006), Beethovens „Missa solemnis” im 19. Jahrhundert. Aufführungs- und Diskursgeschichte (Dohr, 2006), chapters in the book Beethoven Omoshiro Zatsugaku Jiten (Yamaha Music Media, 2009), Gakufu O Marugoto Yomitoku Hon (Yamaha Music Media, 2017), co-translator into Japanese of Heinrich Schenker’s Beethovens neunte Sinfonie: eine Darstellung des musikalischen Inhaltes unter fortlaufender Berücksichtigung auch des Vortrages unter der Literatur, Die letzten fünf Sonaten von Beethoven (1912), Erläuterungsausgabe der Sonate A-Dur, op. 109 (1913), Die letzten fünf Sonaten von Beethoven. Erläuterungsausgabe der Sonate A-Dur, op. 110 (1914), Die letzten fünf Sonaten von Beethoven. Erläuterungsausgabe der Sonate A-Dur, op. 111 (1916), as well as Kate L. Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers, 7th edition (2007).
Lecture & Seminar
Prof. Numaguchi’s teaching activities encompasses a wide range of lectures from general Western music history at the introductory level to graduate proseminars. He also advises students from all of these levels, dealing mainly with the Western art music of the 18th and 19th century.
Message for Future Students （日本語）
「音楽学」の知名度は、日本ではいまだ高いとは言えません。しかし、仮に耳馴染みは薄いとしても、取り立てて難しいこと意味しているわけではありません。音楽に関わる学術的研究は、すべてが音楽学に含まれます。そして音楽は、単なる趣味や余興ではありません。人類は、有史のはるか以前から、恐らくはその原初に限りなく近い頃から、音楽とともにありました。その意味で、音楽は人類の属性のひとつと言っても過言ではないでしょう。みずからの属性を知ろうとするのは、ごく自然な知的衝動です。音楽というのぞき穴から、自分を、人類を、世界を探求する壮大な旅に出る仲間の訪れを楽しみに待っています。
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Yasuko Tsukahara, Professor
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Received her doctorate degree at Tokyo University of the Arts in 1990, specialized in Japanese music history particularly focusing on the modern period. Her major books include Reception of Western music in the 19th Century Japan (1993, awarded the Kyoto Music Prize and the TANABE Hisao Prize) and The Meiji State and Gagaku (2009, awarded the TANABE Hisao Prize). Her recent articles are “State Ceremony and Music in Meiji-era Japan” (Nineteenth-Century Music Review 10: 2013) and “Japanese Naval Bands during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-1905” (Bulletin of the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts, no.40: 2015). She also co-authored Music History for Beginners and Lecture on Traditional Japanese Performing Arts: Music among others.
tsukahar@ms.geidai.ac.jp
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Kin’ya Osumi, Professor
1) Academic profile
He is Professor in Faculty of Music at Tokyo University of the Arts and Director of the University Library. After studying in Tübingen, Germany in 1989-1991, He worked as Lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts and Associate professor at Naruto University of Education. In 2012 he was awarded a Tsuji Soichi and Miura Anna scholarship.
2) Recent research themes
His research interests has concentrated on 16th and 17th-century Christian music in Germany, and music in Renaissance and Baroque periods. He is also interested in interdisciplinary music studies, including music history from the perspective of religion and death, and popular music studies.
3) Lecture & Seminar
osumi@ms.geidai.ac.jp
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Yukio Uemura, Professor
1) Academic profile
Educational and Professional History
BA(1985) and MA(1987) from Tokyo University of the Arts (GEIDAI) ; Studied Korean music and musicology at Seoul National University (1989-1991); Completed Ph.D. program without dissertation (1994). At GEIDAI since 2005; Director, Koizumi Fumio Memorial Archives.
Teaching and Research Interests
ethnomusicology; history of Asian music; Korea; Okinawa; Uyghur; Javanese gamelan; colonialism; social history of music
Authored and Edited Books (In Japanese)
A History of Asian Music (1996; co-edited with TSUGE Gen’ichi)
Exploring Korean Music (1998)
2) Current Research Topics
- Social History of Military Band Music and Musicians in the Late Joseon Korea.
Historical investigation into musical activities and social organizations of Ch’uigosu and Seaksu, two groups of military band musicians in the late Joseon Korea (17-20th centuries).
- Critical Reconsideration of Asian Music Studies by Japanese Scholars in the Early 20th Century.
Post-colonial reconsideration of early history of Asian music studies in modern Japan, focusing on the formation process of “Toyo Ongaku (Oriental / Asiatic Music)”.
- Restoration Study of Uyghur 12 Muqam through the Wire Recording Sources
Restoration of the musical style and performance practice of Uyghur 12 (on-ikki) muqam in the early 20th century, utilizing the newly-discovered wire recording sources. Collaborative research with scholars in Xinjiang Arts Institute, China.
- Construction of Field Recording Archives of Korean and Okinawan Folk Music
Digitization and preservation project of Korean and Okinawan folk music recordings, methodological and ethical problems of utilization of sound archives are also examined. Collaborative research with scholars in Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts and Seoul National University.
3) Class Subjects and Goals
Undergraduate:
Introduction to Asian Music History; Freshman Seminar in Ethnomusicology; Lecture and Seminar in Asian Musics and Ethnomusicology; Organology; Reading Seminar in Musicology (English) [for musicology-major students]. Introduction to Japanese and Asian Musics [for music-major students except for musicology].
Their primary goals are to introduce students to Asian musics and their cultural and historical contexts, to broaden their understanding of music in human life, and to develop basic research skills of ethnomusicology including fieldwork.
Master’s and Doctoral Programs:
Seminar in Musicology (Ethnomusicology); Special Studies in Musicology (Asian Musics).
The goal of the classes is for students to provide theoretical issues and current topics in ethnomusicology and Asian music studies. Students are required to develop their disciplinary knowledge, academic insights and research skills through the presentation and class discussion. Field experiences of music(s) in its broadest sense are essential in participating in the seminars.
uemura_y@ms.geidai.ac.jp
Fuyuko Fukunaka, Professor
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1) Academic profile
She received her BA in performance from Kunitachi College of Music, and MA and PhD in Historical Musicology from New York University, The Graduate School of Arts and Science.
2) Current Research Topics
Her research interests lie in 20th– and 21st-century music, in particular, postwar music theater, music and literary theory, and music and the Cold War politics.
3) Publications
Selected publications: The Horizons of Opera Studies (Co-editor, Sairyu-sha, 2009), The New Musicology: Critical Approaches to the Interpretation of Musical Works (Editor and Translator, Keio University Press, 2013) and book chapters in Alban Berg und der Zwanziger Jahre (Verlag Mueller-Speiser, 1999), Music of Japan Today (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities (Routledge, 2013), Contemporary Music in East Asia (Seoul National University Press, 2014), and Lexikon Neue Musik (Metzler, 2016).
4)Lectures ＆ Seminars
Prof. Fukunaka’s teaching at the Music Faculty includes undergraduate courses on seminars in musical aesthetics and in contemporary music, history of opera, and history of western music. She also teaches graduate pro-seminars and advises Master’s and Ph. D. students.
fukunaka.fuyuko@ms.geidai.ac.jp
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Shin Nishimagi, Associate Professor
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1) Academic profile
BA and MA from Waseda University, Tokyo, and PhD in Musicology from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (IVe section : Section des sciences historiques et philologiques).
2) Current Research Topics
His research interests lie in the philology of music of the 9th-12th centuries.
- Critical edition of the Musica disciplina of Aurélian de Réôme (in preparation with Christian Meyer).
- Critical edition of the Dialogus de musica (in preparation).
- Comaparative studies of the aquitanian and french theoretical tonaries.
3) Publications
Selected publications: Tractatuli, Excerpta et Fragmenta de Musica s. XI et XII (Brepols, 2011)
4) Lecture & Seminar
He is teaching at the undergraduate courses includes the reading of the french texts, and the history of western music theory.
nishimagi.shin@ms.geidai.ac.jp