Four Asian Contemporary Composers
Author | : Francisco F. Feliciano |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Francisco F. Feliciano |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lynn Buralli Pohronezny |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Author | : EricC. Lai |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1351542346 |
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 | : 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 | : Yayoi Uno Everett |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2024-08-06 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0819501654 |
Author | : E. Michael Richards |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2021-01-20 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1527564886 |
Music of Japan Today examines cross-cultural confluences in contemporary Japanese art-music through multiple approaches from twenty international composers, performers, and scholars. Like the format of the MOJT symposia (1992-2007) held in the United States, the book is in two parts. In Part I, three award-winning Japanese composers discuss the construction of their compositional techniques and aesthetic orientations. Part II contains nineteen essays by scholars and creative musicians, arranged in a general chronological frame. The first section discusses connections of the music and ideas of Japanese composers during the time surrounding the Second World War to Japan’s politics; section two presents recent perspectives on the music and legacy of Japan’s most internationally renowned composer, Toru Takemitsu (1930-96). Section three investigates innovative, cross-cultural uses of Japanese and Western instruments (grouped by common instrumental families - voice, flutes, strings), shaped by historical traditions, physical design, and acoustic characteristics and constraints. Section four examines computer music by mid-career composers, and the final section looks at four current Japanese societies, within and “off-shore” Japan, and their music: spirituality and wind band music in Japan, avant-garde sound artists in Tokyo, Japanese composers in the UK, and the role of cell phone ringtones in the Japanese music market.
Author | : Ramon Pagayon Santos |
Publisher | : UP Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9789715424882 |
Intended to fill a void in critical writing on Philippine musical literature - reflective and analytical discussions of important markers in contemporary Filipino musical life.
Author | : Mary I. Arlin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1351974041 |
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 | : Robert C. Sibley |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2013-09-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0813934737 |
Compelled to seek something more than what modern society has to offer, Robert Sibley turned to an ancient setting for help in recovering what has been lost. The Henro Michi is one of the oldest and most famous pilgrimage routes in Japan. It consists of a circuit of eighty-eight temples around the perimeter of Shikoku, the smallest of Japan's four main islands. Every henro, or pilgrim, is said to follow in the footsteps of Kōbō Daishi, the ninth-century ascetic who founded the Shingon sect of Buddhism. Over the course of two months, the author walked this 1,400-kilometer route (roughly 870 miles), visiting the sacred sites and performing their prescribed rituals.Although himself a gaijin, or foreigner, Sibley saw no other pilgrim on the trail who was not Japanese. Some of the people he met became not only close companions but also ardent teachers of the language and culture. These fellow pilgrims’ own stories add to the author’s narrative in unexpected and powerful ways. Sibley’s descriptions of the natural surroundings, the customs and etiquette, the temples and guesthouses will inspire any reader who has longed to escape the confines of everyday life and to embrace the emotional, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of a pilgrimage.
Author | : Barbara Mittler |
Publisher | : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 9783447039208 |
Barbara Mittler's book is the first comprehensive monographic study of China's New Music written in a Western language. It deals with two key points of contention: the effects of politics on the development of Chinese New Music, and the importance of China's indigenous musical traditions for the development of her New Music. In many ways, it is a handbook to New Chinese Music as it provides biographical and musicological sketches of the greater number of China's composers. As a reference work it will thus be of interest to libraries as well as to musicologists and music impressarios. The book is unique as a comparative study of New Chinese Music under three different political systems. Its conclusions, the discovery of (and explanations for) inherent similarities in those three New Musics will be of interest to sinologists in the field of politics and cultural studies.