sound-scape

Japanese: sound-scape(英語表記)soundscape
sound-scape

...The original claim of environmental music was to create a stable sound space between humans and the environment, but as it spread, it led to the paradoxical result of forcing people to listen to music they did not want to hear, and today, background music, a representative form of modern functional music, is plagued with major problems. Canadian musician R.M. Schafer (1933- ) criticized the negative effects of background music and, with the idea of ​​soundscape, is exploring the nature of environmental music that aims to harmonize humans with the outside world. Among the fields of musicology, music sociology, which studies the relationship between music and society, has lagged behind music history and music aesthetics, with fewer papers published on the subject, but since the 1960s, its importance has been recognized and it has rapidly attracted attention.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "sound-scape" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…環境音楽の最初の主張は,人間と環境の間に一定の安定した音空間を作ることであったが,しかしその普及とともに,聴きたくない音楽を強制的に聴かされるという逆説的な結果を引き起こすことになり,現代の〈機能音楽〉の代表的な〈BGM〉は今日大きな問題をかかえこんでいる。カナダの音楽家シェファーR.M.Schafer(1933‐ )は,こうした〈BGM〉の弊害を批判し,〈サウンド・スケープsound‐scape(音の風景)〉という思想をかかげて,人間と外界の世界の調和を目ざした環境音楽のあり方を模索している。なお音楽学の研究分野のなかで,音楽と社会の関連について研究する音楽社会学は,音楽史や音楽美学などよりも文献の数も少なく立ち遅れていたが,1960年代以降,その重要性が認識され,急速に注目を集めるようになった。…

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