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History of a Cultural Conquest: The Piano in Japan

01 Jan 2014-Iss: 27, pp 83-99
TL;DR: In this paper, a short review of the penetration of European music into Japan and its enthusiastic appropriation calls for a different approach to the controversial question of acculturation, and the rapid growth in the pianois popularity in Japan, together with the implicit musical revolution, could also occasion a parallel with the similar process of accculturation which occurred in Eastern Europe (for instance the Romanian Principalities) musical Westernization (including the institutional and educational reform) might, in contradicting the traditional local musical concepts, mirror a different perspective on intercultural communication and contemporary cultural education
Abstract: Any short review of the penetration of European music into Japan and its enthusiastic appropriation calls for a different approach to the controversial question of acculturation The rapid growth in the pianois popularity in Japan, together with the implicit musical revolution, could also occasion a parallel with the similar process of acculturation which occurred in Eastern Europe (for instance the Romanian Principalities) Musical Westernization (including the institutional and educational reform) might, in contradicting the traditional local musical concepts, mirror a different perspective on intercultural communication and contemporary cultural education

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  • ...Japanese attitudes to the piano were that they should be “small, cheap specimens to be used by everyone and which could find a place in any dwelling” (Gaspar 2014, 9)....

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TL;DR: The effects of harmony and rhythm on expectancy formation were studied in two experiments and the need for rhythmical weighting factors within the psychological representation of tonal/pitch information is highlighted.
Abstract: The effects of harmony and rhythm on expectancy formation were studied in two experiments. In both studies, we generated musical passages consisting of a melodic line accompanied by four harmonic (chord) events. These sequences varied in their harmonic content, the rhythmic periodicity of the three context chords prior to the final chord, and the ending time of the final chord itself. In Experiment 1, listeners provided ratings for how well the final chord in a chord sequence fit their expectations for what was to come next; analyses revealed subtle changes in ratings as a function of both harmonic and rhythmic variation. Experiment 2 extended these results; listeners made a speeded reaction time judgment on whether the final chord of a sequence belonged with its set of context chords. Analysis of the reaction time data suggested that harmonic and rhythmic variation also influenced the speed of musical processing. These results are interpreted with reference to current models of music cognition, and they highlight the need for rhythmical weighting factors within the psychological representation of tonal/pitch information.

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Journal ArticleDOI
20 Feb 2019
TL;DR: In this article, the interchange between multiple co-existing environments is examined and the authors focus on the production of space through sound, but there has been less attention given to the interchange of spaces through sound.
Abstract: While scholars have drawn attention to the production of space through sound, there has been less attention given to the interchange between multiple co-existing environments. This paper examines h...

11 citations