A Study on Chou Wen-chung
Author | : Wing-chi Chan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Wing-chi Chan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eric C. Lai |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1351542354 |
Chou Wen-chung is one of the most influential musical figures of our time. His rich cultural background, his studies with Edgard Var and his interest in the genuine rapport between Eastern and Western musical traditions have been the major influences on his career. Although he is active in various artistic and cultural circles that include scholarship, education and cultural preservation, his major calling has always been composition. As a composer, Chou has created a group of works whose stylistic innovation and technical profundity are distinctive among composers of his generation. His music, which has received critical acclaim around the globe, documents his creative journey, especially in the realization of re-merger - the fusion of Eastern and Western music that has become a new mainstream in art music. Through extensive focus on sketch study, Eric Lai examines Chou's music to contribute to an understanding of his aesthetic orientation, his compositional technique, his role in the development of new music, and his influence upon the younger generation of composers.
Author | : Chia-Chi Chen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter M. Chang |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780810852969 |
A comprehensive account of the life of composer Chou Wen-Chung, including biographical information, cultural and musical analysis of his approach and compositions, and ethnomusicological insights.
Author | : EricC. Lai |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781315085852 |
"Chou Wen-chung is one of the most influential musical figures of our time. His rich cultural background, his studies with Edgard Var?, and his interest in the genuine rapport between Eastern and Western musical traditions have been the major influences on his career. Although he is active in various artistic and cultural circles that include scholarship, education and cultural preservation, his major calling has always been composition. As a composer, Chou has created a group of works whose stylistic innovation and technical profundity are distinctive among composers of his generation. His music, which has received critical acclaim around the globe, documents his creative journey, especially in the realization of re-merger - the fusion of Eastern and Western music that has become a new mainstream in art music. Through extensive focus on sketch study, Eric Lai examines Chou's music to contribute to an understanding of his aesthetic orientation, his compositional technique, his role in the development of new music, and his influence upon the younger generation of composers."--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Mary I. Arlin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1351974033 |
The displacement of Chou Wen-chung from his native China in 1948 forced him into Western-European culture. Ultimately finding his vocation as a composer, he familiarized himself with classical and contemporary techniques but interpreted these through his traditionally oriented Chinese cultural perspective. The result has been the composition of a unique body of repertoire that synthesizes the most progressive Western compositional idioms with an astonishingly traditional heritage of Asian approaches, not only from music, but also from calligraphy, landscape painting, poetry, and more. Chou’s importance rests not only in his compositions, but also in his widespread influence through his extensive teaching career at Columbia University, where his many students included Bright Sheng, Zhou Long, Tan Dun, Chen Yi, Joan Tower, and many more. During his tenure at Columbia, he also founded the U.S.-China Arts Exchange, which continues to this day to be a vital stimulus for multicultural interaction. The volume will include an inventory of the Chou collection in the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland.
Author | : Yayoi Uno Everett |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2024-08-06 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0819501654 |
Author | : Michael Saffle |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2017-03-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0472122711 |
Western music reached China nearly four centuries ago, with the arrival of Christian missionaries, yet only within the last century has Chinese music absorbed its influence. As China and the West demonstrates, the emergence of “Westernized” music from China—concurrent with the technological advances that have made global culture widely accessible—has not established a prominent presence in the West. China and the West brings together essays on centuries of Sino-Western musical exchange by musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and music theorists from around the world. It opens with a look at theoretical approaches of prior studies of musical encounters and a comprehensive survey of the intercultural and cross-cultural theoretical frameworks—exoticism, orientalism, globalization, transculturation, and hybridization—that inform these essays. Part I focuses on the actual encounters between Chinese and European musicians, their instruments and institutions, and the compositions inspired by these encounters, while Part II examines theatricalized and mediated East-West cultural exchanges, which often drew on stereotypical tropes, resulting in performances more inventive than accurate. Part III looks at the musical language, sonority, and subject matters of “intercultural” compositions by Eastern and Western composers. Essays in Part IV address reception studies and consider the ways in which differences are articulated in musical discourse by actors serving different purposes, whether self-promotion, commercial marketing, or modes of nationalistic—even propagandistic—expression. The volume’s extensive bibliography of secondary sources will be invaluable to scholars of music, contemporary Chinese culture, and the globalization of culture.
Author | : Li Zehou |
Publisher | : China Books & Periodicals |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 1988-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780835121446 |
Author | : Sally Bick |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2019-12-20 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 025205167X |
The Hollywood careers of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler brought the composers and their high art sensibility into direct conflict with the premier producer of America's potent mass culture. Drawn by Hollywood's potential to reach—and edify—the public, Copland and Eisler expertly wove sophisticated musical ideas into Hollywood and, each in their own distinctive way, left an indelible mark on movie history. Sally Bick's dual study of Copland and Eisler pairs interpretations of their writings on film composing with a close examination of their first Hollywood projects: Copland's music for Of Mice and Men and Eisler's score for Hangmen Also Die! Bick illuminates the different ways the composers treated a film score as means of expressing their political ideas on society, capitalism, and the human condition. She also delves into Copland's and Eisler's often conflicted attempts to adapt their music to fit Hollywood's commercial demands, an enterprise that took place even as they wrote hostile critiques of the film industry.