Chinese Music Monograph Series
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Foreign $4.50CHINA
A JOURNEY
INTO ITS
MUSICAL ART
Sin-Yan Shen
C h i n e s e M u s i c S o c i e t y o f N o r t h A m e r i c a
C h i c a g o , U S A
ABOUT THE AUTHORBorn in 1949 to Shanghainese parents, Sin-yan Shen studied music at very early age, mastering the vertical fiddle family of instruments. His dual career in music and physics culminated in the development of cultural acoustics, a discipline addressing scientifically the cultural molding of our ears and brain when it comes to music. Dr. Shen's life-long work centers on the question of "what music really is?" His teaching in North America and abroad has created a new understanding of music, its creative and social functions, and provides inspiration to a new generation of composers and music practitioners.
Dr. Sin-yan Shen pioneered the teaching of cultural acoustics at Northwestern and Harvard. He is currently Music Director of the Silk and Bamboo Ensemble and the Chinese Classical Orchestra, both touring internationally under the auspices of the Chinese Music Society of North America. He is editor of the international journal Chinese Music, music authority for the Encyclopedia Britannica, and a Fulbright Scholar. He serves as Technical Advisor to the Shanghai Musical Instruments Factory.
C O N T E N T S
Preface iii
PRELUDE 11
CHINESE CULTURE & CHINA'S MUSICAL ART 19
MY JOURNEY INTO CHINA'S MUSICAL ART 25
THE ART OF CHINESE DANCES: EXPRESSIONS OF HAND, EYE, BODY, AND STEPS 32 - Dance Index
ON MEI LANFANG, QI RUSHAN AND LIU TIANHUA 49
THEATRICAL MUSIC & THEIR FASCINATING VOCAL STYLES 59
WHAT MAKES CHINESE MUSIC CHINESE? 83
MY CONCISE HISTORY OF CHINESE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 107
THE MUSIC OF THE CHINESE ORCHESTRAS 116
THE SCIENCE OF FANGSHENG PERFORMANCE 147
THE ARTISTIC PATHWAY OF CHINESE MUSIC - ON ANALYZING THE WORKS OF HUA YANJUN (A BING) 161
ARE THERE RULES FOR PERFORMANCE? 180
THE NEW POSTURE OF "THE MOUNTAIN VILLAGE": ON ZENG JIAQING'S FOLK MUSIC OF EASTERN CHINA 185
CHINESE CLASSICAL ART SONGS & THEIR IMPACTS 189
ZHANG HAN-HUI AND "ON THE SONGHUA RIVER" 200
FUN WITH THE BURGANDIAN: MUSIC OF THE YUAN DYNASTY 204
INDEX 211
ISBN 1-880464-07-1
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Total 222 pages
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