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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2026
College University-wide Liberal Arts Courses (Comprehensive Courses)
Course Code FC507
Theme・Subtitle Sounds Japanese -Musical culture on and beyond these islands-
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus Lecture
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Fall semester
DayPeriod・Room Tue.4
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Credits 2
Course Number CMP2331
Language English
Class Registration Method Exceptional Lottery Registration
Assigned Year 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
Prerequisite Regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges
Course Cancellation 〇(履修中止可/ Eligible for cancellation)
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy 各授業科目は、学部・研究科の定める学位授与方針(DP)や教育課程編成の方針(CP)に基づき、カリキュラム上に配置されています。詳細はカリキュラム・マップで確認することができます。
https://www.rikkyo.ac.jp/about/disclosure/educational_policy/qo9edr0000006ur7-att/zengakukyoutu_sougou.pdf
Notes

【Course Objectives】

This course has two aims: Firstly, to provide students with both aural listening-based and formal reading-based knowledge of music genres from Japanese history that are still practiced, in most cases both on and beyond the Japanese islands. Secondly, to provide them with intellectual tools and stimulus for thinking about the nature of music they encounter in their daily lives, now and in future, specifically in relation to concepts of national and cultural identity, as well as situatedness in physical and spatial sites of music-making.

【Course Contents】

The two introductory lectures define core concepts around music and national/cultural identity as well as soundscape and ‘resonances’of site-situated music-making. The methodological, practical and ethical issues involved in carrying out an on-site music documentation project (as the students’ Term Project) are also addressed. Then from session 3 the course proceeds through a series of ‘traditional Japanese music’genre studies (gagaku, noh, shakuhachi, biwa, wadaiko, nagauta), followed by a lecture on musics of the Okinawan and Ainu minorities. For all genres the music will be examined in both internal Japanese and ‘global’ contexts, the latter involving responses to the genre that reflect Western compositional and improvisational practices, both beyond and within the Japanese archipelago. There will be two sessions with performer-researchers as guests.

In-progress and final presentations on the Term Project for this course will be required in sessions 8, 13 and 14, collectively worth 40% of the course mark. The Project itself will be set up in the second session. It is to be carried out in groups of no more than 4 students. (Individuals who wish to work on their own, however, can be granted permission where appropriate.) The work will entail documenting a particular conspicuously‘Japanese’ musical phenomenon or experience such as an individual professional or amateur performer, a group or band, or a community music-centred event such as an autumn/harvest festival. The music must be played ‘live’by human beings (not just on the Internet, television, social media or devices, nor by robots or AI!) in or at sites/settings where the students themselves live or regularly go, such as near the campus, or near Ikebukuro or another major hub station. The music-making (which could involve both rehearsing and performing) must be documented over a period of at least one month, so ideally students will visit visit the music site regularly over at least several weeks.

Japanese Items

【授業計画 / Course Schedule】

1 Introduction: concepts and terms for sound (mostly musical ones) and their relations to specific sites, cultures and national identities; チンドン屋chindonya and 祭りmatsuri musics case studies
2 Finding, following and MAKING ‘Japanese’ musical sounds in Tokyo. Setting up their Term Projects (groups/individuals)
3 雅楽 Gagaku as a historical and traditional genre
4 雅楽 Gagaku in the world – responses and transformations beyond and within Japan (新曲/Miyata Mayumi/Togi Hideki etc)
5 能 noh (including utai as local singing practice in certain regions)
6 能 noh in the world – English plays (Allan Marett’s Eliza and Oppenheimer)
7 尺八 shakuhachi in and beyond Japan - guest
8 In-progress reports and peer feedback
9 琵琶 biwa in Japan and Ireland
10 和太鼓 wadaiko in Japan and Australia
11 長唄や歌舞伎の下座音楽 nagauta and kabuki music - guest
12 沖縄とアイヌ音楽‘Japanese’ Others’ musics: Okinawan and Ainu
13 Presentations 1
14 Presentations 2

【活用される授業方法 / Teaching Methods Used】

板書 /Writing on the Board
スライド(パワーポイント等)の使用 /Slides (PowerPoint, etc.)
上記以外の視聴覚教材の使用 /Audiovisual Materials Other than Those Listed Above
個人発表 /Individual Presentations
グループ発表 /Group Presentations
ディスカッション・ディベート /Discussion/Debate
実技・実習・実験 /Practicum/Experiments/Practical Training
学内の教室外施設の利用 /Use of On-Campus Facilities Outside the Classroom
校外実習・フィールドワーク /Field Work
上記いずれも用いない予定 /None of the above

【授業時間外(予習・復習等)の学修 / Study Required Outside of Class】

A pdf of a reading in English and one or more recordings (audio or audio-visual, available either on the Internet or on a restricted access website for the course) will be assigned as compulsory preparatory material for all sessions except numbers 1, 8, 13 and 14.
The Term Project requires that students make arrangements to visit and document a ‘Japanese’ music-making site several times over at least several weeks.

【成績評価方法・基準 / Evaluation】

種類 (Kind)割合 (%)基準 (Criteria)
平常点 (In-class Points)100 In-progress and final presentations(40%)
Report(30%)
Contributions and attitude(30%)
備考 (Notes)

【テキスト / Textbooks】

なし/None

【参考文献 / Readings】

No著者名 (Author/Editor)書籍名 (Title)出版社 (Publisher)出版年 (Date)ISBN/ISSN
1 Bonnie WADE Music in Japan Oxford University Press 2005 0195144880
2 Hugh DE FERRANTI Japanese Musical Instruments Oxford University Press 2000 0195905008

【履修にあたって求められる能力 / Abilities Required to Take the Course】

Listening closely to music audio and audio-visual recordings. Collecting materials about live music-making activities, then organising and interpreting data in a short report (maximum 2000 English words, minimum 1000).

【学生が準備すべき機器等 / Equipment, etc., that Students Should Prepare】

Sound and video recording (on a 携帯 phone is sufficient).

【その他 / Others】

【注意事項 / Notice】

・F科目中級(外国語による総合系科目)
・他に特別外国人学生が履修
・この授業は英語で実施する
・履修者はTOEIC®L&R 550点相当以上の英語力を有することが望ましい
・多彩な学び科目
本科目は、担当教員の実務経験、または実務に従事するゲスト・スピーカーの招聘講義等を活かした授業である。