著者

神月 朋子

出版者

埼玉大学教育学部

雑誌

埼玉大学紀要. 教育学部 (ISSN:18815146)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.59, no.1, pp.155-162, 2010

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This article will clarify the creative idea of Tomojiro Ikenouchi (1906-1991), a composer who was admitted to Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique as first Japanese student, in order to consider the reception of the French modern music before the World WarⅡin Japan. His idea is examined from the four points of view: Nô, Haiku, education in France and the music of Maurice Ravel.Ikenouchi formed his aesthetic idea through Nô and Haiku which show the essence of the expression by the least medium. In France he learned that the French theory of harmony, differentfrom the German one, requires the unique beauty and rigid rationality, not the right answer. Healso recognized that the composit on must be done on the strong foundation, which had been lacked among the Japanese composers. This foundation or technique, together with the improvisation (inspiration), can create the work of art.With these experience Ikenouchi wrote, as the first Japanese composer, the music on the model of Ravel, a composer of the neo-classicism because he treated the beauty and rationality expressed by the least medium, common to the Japanese traditional arts and the European neo-classicism.It also means the fusion of the East and the West which Ikenouchi seeks to realize during and after his stay in France.The succession of his idea has been seen when many of his pupils developed their original music which is highly estimated in the world. Its further examination must be done.