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NELSON, Steven G.

ネルソン スティーヴン | NELSON, Steven G.
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Professor
Research field  (2): Other ,  History - General
Research keywords  (4): music in Japanese classical literature ,  heike-gatari (heikyoku), biwa (lute)-accompanied performance of The Tale of the Heike ,  shōmyō (Japanese Buddhist chant) ,  gagaku
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (2):
  • 2017 - 2022 A comprehensive study of Kokin Kyōroku, an early 13th-century manual on biwa (lute) playing
  • 2017 - 2020 A comprehensive study of Kokin Kyōroku, an early 13th-century manual on biwa (lute) playing
Papers (35):
  • Steven G. NELSON, translated by LI Xiaoai. On the origin of gongche notation in Tang-dynasty instrumental tablatures. Huang Zhong (Journal of Wuhan Conservatory of Music). 2023. 145. 23-35
  • Steven G. NELSON. A study of the biwa (lute) notation on the reverse of a document in the Shōsōin, the so-called Tenpyō biwa-fu. Fukushima Kazuo, and the Research Institute for Japanese Music Historiography, Ueno Gakuen University, ed. Rekishigaku to shite no Nihon ongakushi kenkyū [Research on Japanese Music History as Historiography]. 2022. 91-136
  • Steven G. Nelson. Two "Ryūsen," "Sekishō ryūsen" and "Shōgen sekishō ryūsen," secret pieces for the four-stringed lute: Did a scene in "The Tale of Genji" inspire tales providing historical authority for the latter?. Setsuwa bungaku kenkyū (Research on historical tales). 2021. 56. 27-38
  • Steven G. NELSON. 8-13世紀日本的琵琶独奏曲. 第十二届 中日音楽比較学術検討会論文集. 2019. 216-237
  • Reconstructing solo pieces for biwa (lute) of eighth to thirteenth-century Japan. Bulletin of the Faculty of Letters, Hosei University. 2018. 77. 13-36
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MISC (42):
  • 神田邦彦著『中世楽書の基礎的研究』. 説話文学研究. 2019. 54. 213-217
  • 古典文学と音楽 -知識継承の断絶で音楽の意味が消し去られた例-. 法政文芸. 2018. 14. 159-161
  • スティーヴン・G・ネルソン. 中安真理著『箜篌(くご)の研究-東アジアの寺院荘厳と絃楽器』. 東洋音楽研究. 2017. 82. 82. 82-86
  • 「傍聴記」。遠藤 徹・比嘉 舞・三島暁子(発表)・宮田まゆみ(演奏)、「中世の笙の「調子」「入調」」. 『(一社)東洋音楽学会 東日本支部だより』. 2016. 40. 6
  • Steven G. NELSON. CD review Japon: Gagaku : Ensemble Ono / Japan: Gagaku: Ono Ensemble (2015. Archives internationals de musique populaire, Musée d’ethnographie de Geneve, and Disques VDE-GALLO, MEG-AIMP CXI/CD-1466). Yearbook for Traditional Music. 2016. 48. 227
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Books (35):
  • Early Printed Music Notations of Japan
    Bensei Shuppan 2018 ISBN:9784585270294
  • Materials on Japanese Music History: Gagaku and Shōmyō, Music of Court and Buddhist Temple (In cooperation with the March 2017 Tokyo IMS Conference)
    Research Institute for Japanese Music Historiography, Ueno Gakuen University 2017
  • Rishu Zanmai, Japanese Esoteric Buddhist Chant
    2015
  • Gagaku: Music and dance of ancient Japan
    2006
  • Shōmyō: Buddhist ritual chant from Japan
    2006
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Lectures and oral presentations  (205):
  • The origins and development of tablature notation for Japanese ‘Tang music’ (tōgaku)
    (Textual Heritage for the 21st Century: Exploring the Potential of a New Analytic Category 2021)
  • Reading Notation for 13-Stringed Zither Deriving from Tang China: Tunings and Performance Techniques Relating to Pitch
    (Tradition in the Future: Balancing the Preservation and Transference of Traditional Chinese Music with Innovation in the 21st Century 2020)
  • 琵琶の撥合(かきあわせ)から秘曲まで
    (2019年度 説話文学会・仏教文学会12月合同シンポジウム「音楽と文学 -『胡琴教録』の作者は鴨長明か-」 2019)
  • 『平家物語』巻第九より《木曽最期》
    (四谷平曲の会 〜平家琵琶で楽しむ『平家物語』〜 2019)
  • 『平家物語』の世界 -琵琶弾きの経正-
    (特講 文芸と音楽 2019)
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Education (2):
  • 1985 - 1991 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Graduate School, Division of Music Musicology
  • 1975 - 1978 The University of Sydney Faculty of Arts Department of Music
Professional career (1):
  • 修士(芸術学) (東京芸術大学)
Work history (10):
  • 2004/09 - 2017/03 Part-time Lecturer in Japanese Music History / East Asian Music History, Seiha Ongakuin, Tokyo
  • 2014/04 - 2015/03 東京芸術大学音楽学部・非常勤講師
  • 2012/04 - 2013/03 Part-time Lecturer in Japanese Music History, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
  • 2008/04 - 2009/03 Part-time Lecturer in Japanese Music History, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
  • 2004/01 - 2004/03 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Music, University of California at Berkeley
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Awards (1):
  • 1999/09 - Tōyō Ongaku Gakkai (Society for Research in Asiatic Music) 16th Tanabe Hisao Award
Association Membership(s) (8):
Association of Asian Studies ,  Society of Asian Music ,  Musicological Society of Australia ,  International Council for Traditional Music ,  説話文学会 ,  中世文学会 ,  仏教文学会 ,  The Society for Research for Asiatic Music
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