Transcript Western music - Bucknell University

European Music in
Meiji/Taisho/Showa Japan
Gunkan March
• Imperial Japanese
Navy Band
• 1909 recording
• Tokichi Setoguchi,
composer
• Nipponophone; The
American Record
labels
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Remastered by Masato Kubota, 2003
Hibiya Park
Military bands give free concerts
Department store bands
• Mitsukoshi (Nipponbashi)
Youth Band, 1909
– (1921 photo)
• E.g. “Carmen”
• Nagoya Itoya, 1911
• 1912 Osaka Mitsukoshi
Girls Band
Asakusa road of cinema
Theater bands/orchestra
(e.g., Shochiku, Carmen, 1926)
Asakusa “opera”
link
Takagi Tokuko (1890-1919)
• Married age 15,
travelled to U.S.
• Ballet in U.S./London
• 1914 starts variety
troupe
• Asakusa opera:
musical and dances
Konoye Hidemaru (1898-1973)
• Younger brother of
Fumimaro, P.M. late
1930s
• Peer’s School, Tokyo
University of the Arts,
studies in Paris, Berlin
• 1925 started 1st private
orchestra, New Symphony
Orchestra of Tokyo
• 1937, joins NBC
Symphony Orchestra at its
start
• Wartime in Berlin and
Paris