School Music Education and Social Change in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. by Wai-Chung Ho.This book examines recent reforms and innovations in school music education within the changing societies of mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. These three regions share a common historical culture but have had diverse socio-political experiences. Whilst some musical knowledge is common to all three, some is particular to one or two and depends on their responses to globalization, localization and national identity. This book aims to compare how music education in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taipei has adjusted to the forces of globalization, localization and Sinofication. It contributes significantly to thinking about education reforms in response to this tripartite paradigm with respect to not only Chinese communities but also to the Asia-Pacific Region as a whole.
Call Number: MT3 .C5 H6 2011
ISBN: 9789004189171
Publication Date: 2010.
Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow: Chinese pop music and its cultural connotations. by Marc L. Moskowitz.Since the mid-1990s, Taiwan's unique brand of Mandopop (Mandarin Chinese-language pop music) has dictated the musical tastes of the mainland and the rest of Chinese-speaking Asia. Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow explores Mandopop's surprisingly complex cultural implications in Taiwan and the PRC, where it has established new gender roles, created a vocabulary to express individualism, and introduced transnational culture to a country that had closed its doors to the world for twenty years. In his early chapters, Marc L. Moskowitz provides the historical background necessary to understand the contemporary Mandopop scene. The section concludes with a look at the manner in which Taiwan's musical ethos has influenced the mainland's music industry and how Mandopop has brought Western music and cultural values to the PRC. This leads to a discussion of Taiwan pop's exceptional hybridity, beginning with foreign influences during the colonial period under the Dutch and Japanese and continuing with the country's political, cultural, and economic alliance with the U.S. Finally, Moskowitz examines the construction of male and female identities in Mandopop and looks at the widespread condemnation of the genre by critics.
Call Number: ML3502 .C5 M65 2010 (Online)
ISBN: 9781441671387
Publication Date: 2010.
A Critical History of New Music in China. by Jingzhi Liu; Caroline Mason; C. C. Liu.By the end of the nineteenth century, Chinese culture had fallen into a stasis, and intellectuals began to go abroad for new ideas. What emerged was an exciting musical genre that C. C. Liu terms "new music." With no direct ties to traditional Chinese music, "new music" reflects the compositional techniques and musical idioms of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European styles. Liu traces the genesis and development of "new music" throughout the twentieth century, deftly examining the social and political forces that shaped "new music" and its uses by political activists and the government.
Call Number: ML336.5 .L58 2010
ISBN: 9789629963606
Publication Date: 2010.
Reading Chinese music and beyond. by Cheung, Joys H. Y.
Call Number: ML336.5 .R43 2010
ISBN: 9789624423297
Publication Date: 2010.
Chinese Music. by Jie Jin.Unique and complex in style, traditional Chinese music forms a fascinating part of China's cultural heritage. This accessible, illustrated introduction to Chinese music takes the reader through the 8000-year history of China's musical instruments, the diversity of Chinese folk music, the development of China's famous operas and the modern Chinese music industry. From classical to contemporary styles, Jin Jie explores the influence that Chinese music has had around the world.
ISBN: 9780521186919
Publication Date: 2011
The Making of a Musical Canon in Chinese Central Asia. by Rachel Harris.Throughout the course of the twentieth century, as newly formed nations sought ways to develop and formalise their national identity and acquire a range of identifiable national assets, we find new musical canons springing up across the world. But these canons are not arbitrary collections of works imposed on the public by the authorities. Rather they acquire deep resonance and meaning, both as national symbols and as musical repertoires imbued with aesthetic value. This book traces the formation of one such musical canon: the Twelve Muqam, a set of musical suites linked to the Uyghurs, who are one of China's minority nationalities, and culturally Central Asian Muslims. The book draws on Uyghur and Chinese language publications; interviews with musicians and musicologists; field, archive and commercial recordings, and aims towards an understanding of the Twelve Muqam as musical repertoire, juxtaposed with an understanding of the Twelve Muqam as a field of discourse. The book brings together several years' work in this field, but its core arises from a research project under the auspices of the AHRC Centre for Music Performance and Dance.
Call Number: ML3746.7 .S56 H37 2008
ISBN: 9780754663829
Publication Date: 2008.
Music in China. by Frederick Lau.Music in China is one of many case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present. Visit www.oup.com/us/globalmusic for a list of case studies in the Global Music Series. The website also includes instructional materials to accompany each study. Music in China offers a unique exploration of the rich, dynamic, and multifaceted Chinese musical landscape. In contrast with previous scholarship--which focused almost exclusively on the role of music in elite culture--this volume takes a balanced look at a variety of traditional and modern genres, including those performed among local and regional folk musicians, in academia, in the media, and on concert stages both inside and outside of China. Using the interrelated themes of identity, modernization, and ideology as a narrative framework, author Frederick Lau discusses the musical features of the selected genres, the processes through which they came into existence, and related socio-political issues. Lau draws on his own extensive fieldwork and performance experience in both mainland China and its diasporic communities to show how the ever-changing Chinese musical tradition takes on particular meanings in China, in overseas Chinese communities, and in diverse international settings. Enhanced by eyewitness accounts of local performances, interviews with key performers, vivid illustrations, and hands-on listening activities, Music in China provides an accessible and engaging introduction to Chinese music. It is packaged with an 80-minute audio CD containing examples of the music discussed in the book.
Call Number: ML336 .L28 2008
ISBN: 9780195301243
Publication Date: 2007.
SonQ Dynasty Musical Sources and Their Interpretation. by Rulan Chao Pian.This book is a standard reference on Sonq dynasty music, and a model of meticulous scholarship. In the book Professor Pian surveys the theoretical and practical treatises on music, the historical and encyclopedic compilations, the song collections, and various other related materials. She comments on available editions of the musical works themselves, the origin of each piece, and its value for scholarly research. She also explains in detail the intricacies of the Sonq dynasty modal system and forms of notation, an understanding of which is essential for reading Sonq music. Originally published in 1967, this title is now reprinted with a new foreword and an introductory essay. Book jacket.
Call Number: ML336.2 .P5 2003
ISBN: 9629960621
Publication Date: 2003
Chinese Music in the 20th Century. by Sin-Yan Shen; Yuan-Yuan Lee (Editor).
Call Number: ML336.5 .S54 2001
ISBN: 1880464047
Publication Date: 2001.
Chinese Music and Musical Instruments by Xi Qiang; Niu Jiandang (Photographer); Qiu Maoru (Translator); China Central Folk Orchestra StaffWith dozens of color photographs and insightful text,Chinese Music and Musical Instruments describes in detail the musical instruments with which a Chinese folk orchestra is equipped and their working and sounding principles. There are as many as a thousand different kinds of musical instruments in China. Only a tiny portion of them are used in an orchestra. The selection of musical instruments for an orchestra depends on how well they complement one another. A Chinese folk orchestra is composed of four sections: wind, plucked, percussion and bowed. This book is also devoted to the description of the development of classical Chinese music and the introduction of some music-related tales of profound significance. Chinese music is a big family composed of various distinctive types of music: Chinese folk music played at weddings, funerals or in festivals an fairs. The religious music played in religious services conducted in Buddhist and Taoist temples. Court music, which reached its zenith during the Tang Dynasty. The scholars' music based on Confucian thinking was the embodiment of the musical life of academia and refined music of this kind is still prevalent in today's society.
Call Number: ML531 .X5 2011
ISBN: 9781602201057
Publication Date: 2011
A Continuous Revolution by Barbara Mittler
Call Number: DS778.7 .M59 2012
ISBN: 9780674065819
Publication Date: 2013
Scores in Fondren
Chinese Folk Songs Collection by Joseph Johnson(Educational Piano Solo). 24 songs in the Chinese tradition: Crescent Moon * Darkening Sky * Girl's Lament * Hand Drum Song * Jasmine Flower Song * Mountaintop View * Sad, Rainy Day * The Sun Came up Happy * Wedding Veil * and more. Features notes on each piece, exquisite illustrations, and a map of China.
Call Number: M1378 .C53 2009
ISBN: 9781423465478
Publication Date: 2008
Selected recordings in Fondren Library
Eternal pine. by Chou, Wen-Chung, 1923- composer.
Call Number: CD 317-3742
Publication Date: 80770-2 New World Records
Kayagŭm and changgo music.
Chinese virtuoso instrumental music. by Song, Fei, instrumentalist.
Call Number: CD 246-7932
ISBN: CD 246-7932
Publication Date: RMCD-1019 Rhymoi Music, 2007.
Yunnan instrumental music. by Chinese Ensemble of Yunnan Song and Dance Troupe.
Call Number: CD 183-2954
Publication Date: Hugo Productions, 1999
The Yellow River concerto. by Yin, Chengzong instrumentalist.