Christian Music

Japanese: キリシタン音楽 - きりしたんおんがく

...The liturgical book "Sacaramenta Compendium," compiled by Japanese Bishop Cerqueira in 1905, featured two-color musical scores and was printed using advanced printing techniques.
[Christian Music]
European music was introduced as church music in the 1550s, when Gregorian chants were sung at Christmas masses. Seminarians placed great importance on music, and instruments such as violas and harps were used in ensembles.

From [Japanese Music]

…The Meiji Restoration opened the door to trade with Europe and America, and Western music and Qing music (also called Minshingaku, which absorbed the previous Ming music) were imported. Western music was introduced to Japan as Christian music at the end of the Muromachi period, and Japanese people also studied it, but Japan soon became isolated and it stopped being practiced at all. After that, during the Keio period (1865-68), the Satsuma Domain was the first to study military music, and in 1879, the Ministry of Education established a music investigation office, and research on music in elementary education was conducted with the assistance of American music educator LW Mason. …

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "Christian music" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…05年日本司教セルケイラ編纂の典礼書《サカラメンタ提要》は二色刷の音譜を載せ，高度な印刷技術を有していた。
［キリシタン音楽］
　教会音楽として入ったヨーロッパ音楽は，1550年代にグレゴリオ聖歌がクリスマス等のミサで歌われた。セミナリヨでは音楽を重視しビオラ，ハープ等の楽器が合奏された。…

【日本音楽】より

…明治維新により欧米との交渉が開け，洋楽と清楽(前代の明楽を吸収して明清楽（みんしんがく）ともいう)が輸入された。もっとも，洋楽は室町末期にキリスト教とともにキリシタン音楽として伝来し，日本人も習ったりしたが，まもなく鎖国となり，まったく行われなくなった。その後は慶応年間(1865‐68)に薩摩藩が軍楽を学んだのが最初で，1879年には文部省の音楽取調掛が設けられ，初等教育の音楽の調査研究が，アメリカの音楽教育家L.W.メーソンの援助によって行われた。…

※「キリシタン音楽」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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