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Musicology and Theatre Studies Program

The Musicology and Theatre Studies program at the University of Osaka is a unique and comprehensive course of study that explores the performing arts of music, theater, and performing arts in general.

Program Description

Students in this major will study a wide range of topics, including art music, traditional music, and popular music around the world. The musicology curriculum investigates not only the musical sound itself but also its cultural and intellectual contexts that informed the specific musical practice.

The theater studies curriculum covers Japanese classical plays and modern Western theater, as well as cinema, opera, musicals, dance, and performing arts from around the world. Students will learn about the aesthetic qualities and artistic and ethnic characteristics of these different forms of performing arts through inductive, theoretical reasoning, as well as the principles and essence of performance.

Faculty

The program is taught by a team of experienced professors and associate professors, including:

• ITO, Nobuhiro (Ph.D.), who specializes in Musical Folklore of Central Europe and Music History in Central Europe
• WAJIMA, Yusuke (Ph.D.), who specializes in Popular Music Studies and Ethnomusicology
• NAKAO, Kaoru (Ph.D.), who specializes in Theatre Studies and History of Noh Theatre
• KOGO, Naoko (MA), who specializes in Dance Studies and History of German stage dance
• SUZUKI, Seiko (Ph.D.), who specializes in Aesthetics and art studies and History of Modern and Contemporary Music of Japan
• YOKOTA, Hiroshi
• ITO, Nabi (Ph.D.), who specializes in Literature - British/English-language and Aesthetics and art studies

Undergraduate Program

The University of Osaka offers a range of undergraduate programs, including:

• Philosophy, Thought and Culture
• Ethics
• Chinese Philosophy
• Indian Philosophy
• Japanese History
• Asian History
• European and American History
• Archaeology
• Japanese Studies
• Human Geography
• Japanese Linguistics
• Japanese Literature and Japanese Historical Linguistics
• Comparative Literature
• Chinese Literature
• English and American Literature and English Linguistics
• German Literature
• French Literature
• Aesthetics and Science of Literary Arts
• Musicology and Theatre Studies
• Art History