Orchestrating Modernity, Singing the Self: Theories of Music in Meiji and Taisho Japan

The purpose of this thesis is to use the history of music theory to study cultural change in Japan. It has been said that “music is number” (Sima Qian), that it is the “organon of philosophy” (Schelling), that the discovery of the identity of certain simple mathematical ratios with the basic aural c...

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Main Author: Service, Jonathan
Other Authors: Gordon, Andrew D.
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2013
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10381
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10288466