Volume 18 no. 4
1995
Keywords: Music, World, China, Acoustics, Aesthetics, Music Theory, Orchestration, Structure, Formal Design, Composition, Analysis, Musicology, History, Criticism, Musicians, Musical Instruments, Cultural Relics, Performance
THEORY & COMPARATIVE MUSICOLOGY
64 The Fundamentals of Chinese and Western Music Theory: A Comparative Study
The author focuses on the alarming reality that, generally speaking, today Chinese musicians and musicologists know only western music theory. Chinese traditional music theory is indispensable for understanding and learning Chinese music, yet it is not, and has not been studied or taught in any Chinese conservatories or universities for quite some time.
Du Yaxiong
MUSICIANS
68 Hu Dengtiao
Hu developed the Silk String Quintet while studying the Chinese orchestra. He is remembered for his scholarly devotion and scientific assessments of musical arts and their developments.
Shen Sin-yan
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
70 Su Wu Herding Sheep
Scores of Xu Ying and Wang Yifu
Part of Ho and Xu's series of review on the unique and influential school of Manchurian yangqin (the hammered dulcimer). Zhao Dianxue (1885?-1959) and his students Wang Yifu and Xu Ying have made the Manchurian style of yangqin playing one of the most prominent regional styles.
Edward Ho and Xu Pingxin
COMPOSITIONS
74 Chou Wen-Chung's Echoes From The Gorge (1989): Chinese Wine in a Western Bottle, or What? part II
Kwan analyses Chou's new work Echoes From The Gorge. Is his music neither Eastern nor Western? Is it neither new nor old?
Kenneth Kwan Chun-Ming
§ COVER: Shen Jian Performing
at Field Museum of Natural History
Educational Program - Instruments
of the Chinese Orchestra
RECORDING REVIEW
73 Joyous Welcome of Spring
Hu Haiquan and Zhou Dongchao are featured in this delightful collection accompanied by the Beijing Film Traditional Orchestra and the China Broadcasting Traditional Orchestra.
Shen Sin-yan
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