Despite their significance, the writings on Japanese music by
Prussian medical scientist and physician Leopold Muller, published
in Yokohama in a series from 1874 to 1876, have been nearly
forgotten and marginalized even in historical research on the
courtly gagaku traditions they focus upon. This study with full
translation into both English and Japanese illuminates and
reassesses Muller's pioneering contribution. It situates the
essay-series historically in the light of an important line of
thought about the evolution of ancient gagaku that arose only in
the mid-twentieth century, as well as more widely for nearer their
actual publication in relation to the emerging scientifically based
19th-century European scholarly discourse of "other" musics. It
reveals the author, founder of the Medical Academy in Tokyo and
personal physician to the Meiji Emperor, as an important man of his
day both in Japan and back at home. And it proposes that, with the
recent rise of interest in the medical humanities and a
musicological call for embracing the cognitive-scientific along
with the historical and ethnographical, Mullers' first hand
observations of a foreign music made from the practical
body-orientated approach and ethnographic pen of a medical
scientist ought also find new resonance nowadays.
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