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[email protected] FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC JAPANESE MUSICAL MODANIZUMU: INTERWAR YGAKU COMPOSERS AND MODERNISM By KATHRYN ETHERIDGE A Dissertation submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Degree Awarded: Summer Semester, 2014 Kathryn Etheridge defended this dissertation on April 29, 2014. The members of the supervisory committee were: Denise Von Glahn Professor Directing Dissertation Lauren S. Weingarden University Representative Douglass Seaton Committee Member Charles E. Brewer Committee Member Jimmy Yu Committee Member The Graduate School has verified and approved the above-named committee members, and certifies that the dissertation has been approved in accordance with university requirements. ii This is dedicated to my husband, Seth. He knows why. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many teachers, mentors, colleagues, organizations and friends helped to make this project successful. Foremost among them is The Presser Foundation, which provided me with the means—through a generous Graduate Music Award—to travel to Tokyo to conduct archival research. I am also indebted to the Florida State University College of Music faculty for awarding me a Curtis Mayes Orpheus Grant, which allowed me to purchase many of the Japanese sources that I utilized in the creation of this dissertation. My dissertation would not have been possible without the extensive assistance of Morimoto Mieko and the entire staff at the Nihon Kindai Ongakukan at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo.