Volume 17 no. 2

1994

Keywords: Music, World, China, Acoustics, Aesthetics, Music Theory, Orchestration, Structure, Formal Design, Composition, Analysis, Musicology, History, Criticism, Musicians, Musical Instruments, Cultural Relics, Performance

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MUSIC EDUCATION

26 Survey of Music Education in Institutes of Higher Learning in China II

A comprehensive survey has just been completed on music curricular in China at the general institutes of higher learning including colleges and universities. The state of music education in recent times is assessed. A must for understanding the evolution of Chinese education in relation to music (See last issue for part I).

Mu Lidi Li Yiming Wu Xiangtao

MUSIC REVIEW

39 Wang Guotong and Wang Hui Joint Concert

A Report from Hong Kong

In one week the author reviewed three Chinese concerts in Hong Kong. He found this vertical fiddle concert by the father-and-son team to be the best. Wang Guotong was star of "Spring of Shanghai" thirty years ago.

Situ Mingqing

MUSICOLOGY

33 Liu Tian-Hua

Great Innovator of Chinese National Music

Bu Bing explores the nature of Liu Tian-hua's contributions in terms of musical quality and relations to historical developments. Liu is considered the father of erhu pedagogy.

Bu Bing

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