Musicology or art studies in general, and their relations with society, e.g. analyses of art works incl. music, their historical understanding, and art/culture vs. society and economy.
By studying together the German music culture of the 18th century, to begin with, the relation between music art (classical and popular) and society of the West and Japan from the ancient/medieval to the present, the relation between music art and visual art, the introduction of Western music in the Meiji era and the characteristics of its development, the problems of music education in Japanese schools, including colleges, the meaning of liberal-arts education, and the relation between artistic activities and the ideas of mecenat, gender, soundscape and economics, I expect the students to understand the significance of arts in human society and history, and to do so, I emphasize the necessity and importance of interdisciplinary interest and integrated research.