著者

平田 誠一郎

出版者

社会学研究会

雑誌

ソシオロジ (ISSN:05841380)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.54, no.1, pp.37-52,180, 2009-05-31 (Released:2015-05-20)

参考文献数

20

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This paper is a sociological consideration of the performance aspect of the conducting of classical music as seen in the conducting of a contemporary musical work. The work is “Finale,” composed by Mauricio Kagel (b.1931) in 1981. In this piece, the composer’s score instructs the conductor to “fall down on the stage.” “Finale” employs a trick the sociologist Erving Goffman called the “manufacture of negative experience,” and I have applied Goffman’s approach to my analysis of performance in this work. “Finale” is an example of “Music Theater” with the theme of the “conductor” as a dramatic element. This paper first explains the features of “Finale” based on Goffman’s theories about audiences. It then demonstrates the nature of the dramaturgy of the conductor by describing differences between the conductor’s usual performance of music and his or her performance in “Finale.” This consideration leads to an observation of features emphasized in “Finale” with respect to the conductor as “performer.” Based upon this discussion, this paper posits, from the viewpoint of sociology, some of the problems a classical music conductor faces when performing today.