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- Title
COLLECTIONS OF WESTERN MUSIC IN JAPAN: AN INTRODUCTION.
- Authors
Kanazawa, Masakata; Todo, Yasuko
- Abstract
Although Western music was first introduced to Japan shortly after the arrival of Francisco de Xavier (1506-1552) in 1549, only in the wake of the Meiji Restoration (1868) did music and musicians from the West began to arrive and be cultivated to any significant extent. A number of historically noteworthy collections of materials survive from this early period of musical exchange, but there are also several collections, private and public, that include music and other archival materials of interest to scholars throughout Japan. Problems in acceßing information about the extent and nature of these collections stem from a lack of coordination among libraries and other repositories in which these collections are housed. This situation, however, has been changing in the past five years as a number of societies, including the Music Library Aßociation of Japan and the Musicological Society of Japan join together in order to investigate the poßibilities of establishing nationwide databases cataloguing these valuable collections and digitizing the collections to make them more acceßible in future.
- Subjects
JAPAN; JAPANESE music; MUSICIANS; MEIJI Restoration, Japan, 1853-1870; ARCHIVAL materials; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; MUSICOLOGY
- Publication
Fontes Artis Musicae, 2009, Vol 56, Issue 3, p282
- ISSN
0015-6191
- Publication type
Article