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abstract: This document examines select percussion works of Toshi Ichiyanagi (b. 1933), in order to create a resource that brings exposure and sparks interest in his percussion music. Ichiyanagi has long been one of Japan’s leading composers. However, despite having a successful career since the 1960s, he is not well-known in the United States. Furthermore, his close associations with celebrated American avant-garde composers and performers like John Cage, David Tudor, and La Monte Young, make Ichiyanagi’s virtual obscurity in the United States even more striking. Particularly, for a field birthed in the avant-garde, it is surprising that many of his percussion compositions avoid mainstream recognition. For the study, the author prepared and performed a recital of the five works that are discussed: Wind Trace (1984), Trio Interlink (1990), Rhythm Gradation (1993), Perspectives II (1996), and Ballade (2002). The document is a performance guide that also provides background information on each piece. The guide discusses technical and interpretative issues uncovered through firsthand preparation and performance, and provides suggestions to solve them. At the conclusion, the author draws connections between these pieces, to highlight similarities that will be helpful to consider when preparing performances of any of his works involving percussion. Finally, an exhaustive catalog of known Ichiyanagi percussion works is provided as a resource for further performance and research. Ichiyanagi has been writing for percussion since the 1970s. His catalog includes solos, chamber pieces, ensemble pieces, mixed-chamber pieces, and concerti. With recent compositions like Marimba Scenery (2011), Concerto for marimba and orchestra (2012), and the duo Two Dimensions (2012), Ichiyanagi continues to write for percussion. Virtuosi such as Sumire Yoshihara, Atsushi Sugahara, Momoko Kamiya, and Mutsuko Taneya have commissioned and premiered works by the composer. These pieces are on par with the challenging repertoire that has dominated percussion literature since the mid-twentieth century. Nonetheless, the author has found no existing document that is fully devoted to Ichiyanagi’s percussion work. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Music 2017

Orientador: Eduardo Augusto Ostergren / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T02:17:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fuchigami_RafaelHirochi_M.pdf: 4928207 bytes, checksum: a0ed12a80c12607b98a9de37140877a4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Este trabalho organiza informações sobre a introdução e difusão das tradições da flauta shakuhachi no Brasil, desde os primórdios do século XX até os dias atuais, levando em consideração os aspectos históricos e etnomusicológicos desse processo. Partimos dos estudos realizados por Olsen (1982, 1983, 2004) e Satomi (2004), tocando em assuntos relacionados com a difusão da música e cultura pelos imigrantes japoneses e seus descendentes. Entretanto, o objetivo central desta pesquisa é tratar da presença do shakuhachi em nosso país, independentemente da região ou grupo étnico no qual está inserido. Se, por um lado, restringimos o foco para um único instrumento da cultura japonesa, por outro, aprofundamos sua abordagem e ampliamos a pesquisa para todo o país, para além do estado de São Paulo. Discorremos sobre a trajetória da flauta a partir de um levantamento bibliográfico e acrescentamos novas informações que se revelaram durante o trabalho de campo. Abordamos a utilização atual do shakuhachi, visto que nos últimos anos estão ocorrendo mudanças significativas em seu panorama no país, como a introdução das obras e estilo difundidos por Katsuya Yokoyama (1934-2010), o aumento significativo de tocadores não-descendentes de japoneses, entre os quais alguns se tornaram líderes de grupos de música japonesa, e a utilização da internet como ferramenta de difusão das tradições do shakuhachi. Essas transformações evidenciaram o fato de que a cultura japonesa está se deslocando independentemente da população japonesa, um fenômeno recente no contexto do shakuhachi no Brasil / Abstract: The present work attempts to organize information gathered about the introduction and dissemination of the shakuhachi flute tradition in Brasil, from the earliest days of the twentieth-century to the present time, taking into consideration the historical and ethnomusicological aspects of this process. We began with the studies done by Olsen (1982, 1983, 2004) and Satomi (2004) touching on subjects related to the diffusion of music and culture of the immigrants and its descendants as it would be expected. However the focal point of this research is to call attention to the presence of the Shakuhachi flute in our country independently of the geographic region or ethnic group in which it is inserted. If on one hand one narrows the focus of the research to consider just one single instrument of the Japanese culture, on the other one furthers its approach thereby extending the study process to go beyond the borders of the State of São Paulo so to cover the entire country. We have examined the path of the flute¿s evolution begining with a bibliographical survey and adding new information that appeared in the course of our fieldwork. We approached current use of the Shakuhachi taking into consideration the fact that in recent years significant changes have occurred in this country as to the instrument¿s scenario such as the introducing of works and styles diffused by Katsuya Yokoyama (1934-2010), the significant increasing in numbers of non- Japanese descendent players, among which few have become group leaders of Japanese music, and the use of the internet as a tool to promote and divulge Shakuhachi tradition. These transformations make it evident the fact that Japanese culture is gradually being shifted independently from Japanese settlements, a new phenomenon in the environment context of the Shakuhachi in Brazil / Mestrado / Fundamentos Teoricos / Mestre em Música

Analysis of sōkyoku jiuta, Japanese traditional music of the Edo period for koto and shamisen, has in the past relied primarily on static tetrachordal or hexachordal models. The present study takes a transformational approach to traditional Japanese music. Specifically, it develops a framework for six-pitch hexachordal space inspired by Steven Rings’s transformational approach to tonal music. This novel voice-leading space yields insights into intervallic structure, trichordal transposition and hexachordal voice leading and transformations of this music at both its surface and large-scale levels. A side-by-side comparison with Rings’s approach highlights differences between the hexachordal and diatonic systems.

This thesis gives a definition and chronology of city pop and places it within the context of Japanese history. City pop can be traced from the 1960s folk movement in Japan until its demise in the early 1990s, coinciding with the end of the bubble economy. This thesis also examines the mid-2010s resurgence of interest in city pop among English-speaking internet users, beginning with a nostalgic rediscovery and curation of city pop around the turn of the century by DJs in Japan known as “crate diggers.” City pop was then transmitted to the West through sampling in hip-hop and especially within the internet-based genre of vaporwave. The character of vaporwave is one of dystopia and is highly contrasted with the breezy, optimistic sound of city pop. City pop was eventually discovered in the late-2010s by a wider international audience through YouTube, largely due to the suggestion algorithm and the sudden popularity of Takeuchi Mariya’s “Plastic Love.” This thesis will define nostalgia in relation to music and show in what ways it has been present as a factor throughout the history of city pop.

Given the diversity found in today's Japanese culture and the size of the country's population, it is easy to see why the understanding of Japanese wind band repertoire must be multi-faceted. Alongside Western elements, many Japanese composers have intentionally sought to maintain their cultural identity through the addition of Japanese musical elements or concepts. These added elements provide a historical and cultural context from which to frame a composition or, in some cases, a composer's compositional output. The employment of these elements serve as a means to categorize the Japanese wind band repertoire. In his studies on cultural identities found in Japanese music, Gordon Matthews suggests there are three genres found within Japanese culture. He explains these as "senses of 'Japaneseness' among Japanese musicians." They include Fence, Flavor, and Phantasm. Bringing a new perspective to the idea of Japanese influence, I trace the implementation of these facets of Japanese music through the wind band music of Japanese composers. I demonstrate that Japanese wind band genres are the result of a combination of Japanese musical elements and Western influence and argue that the varying levels of this combination, balanced with historical and cultural context, create three distinct genres within the Japanese wind band repertoire.

In the present study I examine the vertical bamboo flute shakuhachi, as an example of how a tradition can be constructed. There are two main issues: the historical authenticity of the believed origins and development of the shakuhachi tradition, and how the transmission of this tradition is conducted. The first main issue is concerned with how a legendary origin, probably constructed in the late seventeenth century, was disproved in early twentieth-century studies. According to this legendary origin, the shakuhachi was connected to Chan (Zen) Buddhism in ninth-century China. It was replaced by a nowadays commonly accepted theory of an indigenous origin, found in both Japanese and English language contemporary writings. I discuss the legend, constructed by the so-called komusō monks of the Edo period (1603–1867), and suggest an alternative explanation of how they became connected to other kinds of medieval monks, so-called boro and komosō. The primary sources relating to the boro and the komosō are discussed. My analyses indicate that the twentieth-century studies created a connection to the boro and komosō as assumed devout Buddhist monks, probably for socio-political reasons. The second main issue concerns how the tradition is transmitted, and the constitutive elements of this transmission. Some Japanese studies discuss the notion of kata – fixed forms implicitly containing essential elements of the ‘tradition’ – as a special feature of Japanese arts. I investigate how transmission is conducted, and argue against the notion that the elements transmitted from teacher to student contain the essence of the tradition. I assert that the concept of fixed forms as a defining characteristic of Japanese traditional arts, should be modified to a more modest ‘character of the music’ on the level of individual transmitters. I discuss the elements that are transmitted, and investigate what it is that constitutes the ‘traditional’ aspects, if any, of this transmission. / 本研究は、竹でできた縦笛である尺八の歴史とその音楽の伝承の研究である。尺八に関連する研究はそのほとんどが歴史的な考察であり、そこでは尺八の 起源、楽器としての尺八、尺八音楽について議論されてきた。初期の研究は20世紀初頭に行なわれた。これらの研究においては、江戸時代（1603〜 1867）に書かれたいろいろな記述や書物によって入念に作り上げられた尺八の伝説的な起源について反証が行われている。江戸時代には、尺八は僧侶の一つ のタイプである虚無僧(こむそう)により宗教的な道具（法器）として使用されていた。虚無僧は、尺八の起源を9世紀の中国の禅僧 Pu Hua （普化）にさかのぼるものと主張していた。それに対して、1900年代に行われた尺八の歴史的な研究において、日本の研究者たちは、江戸時代以前にさかの ぼる日本固有の起源論を提示した。そして、それが暮露(ぼろ)および薦僧(こもそう)という別種の仏教僧につながるものであると述べており、それは現在広 く受け入れられている有力な説となっている。 第4章では、尺八の伝説的な起源について紹介するとともに、上記の三つのタイプの僧が江戸時代の早い時期には同様のものとして見なされるようになった経緯について考察する。 第 5章および第6章では、日本人研究者によるほとんどの研究で参照されている、暮露と薦僧に直接につながる資料の詳細な分析を行う。そこでは、これらの日本 人研究者の研究が示し、広く受け入れられている尺八の日本固有の起源論と発展の過程を分析し、それに対して反論を試みる。本論文の最も中心となる課題は、 「伝統」という概念について考察し、「伝統」が必ずしも真正の起源を基礎とするものとは限らない、ということを尺八を例として明らかにすることである。筆 者の分析において、尺八には日本固有の伝統があるという考えは、おそらく社会政治的な（socio-political）理由のもとに、1900年代に行 われた尺八の歴史に関する研究の中で作り出されたものであると論じる。 本論文中では、「伝統」の概念に関してもう一つの観点を取り上げる。それは、伝統芸能の伝承である。日本における研究では、「型」の概念、つまりその芸能 特有の特質が含まれる固定化されたフォームが日本の伝統芸能の特筆すべきものとして論じられている。筆者はその伝承がどのように行われているかを調べて考 察し、教える者から学ぶ者へ伝承される要素の中には、必ず伝統の本質が含まれるという考えに対して反論を行う。この本質主義的な観点とは対照的に、筆者が 主張するのは、伝統芸能において伝承されるのはそのような意味での「型」ではなく、それはむしろ個々の伝承者のレベルでの、より緩やかな「音楽のキャラク ター」であり、「型」はそういう意味にとらえ直されるべきだということである。本論文では、伝承される諸要素について論じ、また、この伝承における「伝統 的」な様相(アスペクト)を構成しているものが、もしあるとすれば何なのかを追究する。