Chou Wen-Chung

Chou Wen-Chung
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.

The Music of Chou Wen-chung

The Music of Chou Wen-chung
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.

An Annotated Guide to Wind Chamber Music

An Annotated Guide to Wind Chamber Music
Author: Rodney Winther
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2004-08-25
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457449970

Wind chamber music has become an important part of the contemporary wind band program during the past half century, and now a most complete reference text has been written to provide any and all necessary information concerning repertoire. Winther lists over 500 works by instrumentation and provides guidance on timings, difficulty level, publisher sources, available recordings and his own insight into rehearsing and programming each individual work. This book will soon be required reading for every wind conductor and performer!

Polycultural Synthesis in the Music of Chou Wen-chung

Polycultural Synthesis in the Music of Chou Wen-chung
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.

Chamber Music

Chamber Music
Author: Mark A. Radice
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2012-01-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0472051652

A thorough overview and history of chamber music

Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey

Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey
Author: Horace J. Maxile, Jr.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2022-06-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000631478

Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teacher’s Guide provides concrete information and approaches that will help instructors include women and people of color in the typical music history survey course and the foundational music theory classes. This book provides a reconceptualization of the principles that shape the decisions instructors should make when crafting the syllabus. It offers new perspectives on canonical composers and pieces that take into account musical, cultural, and social contexts where women and people of color are present. Secondly, it suggests new topics of study and pieces by composers whose work fits into a more inclusive narrative of music history. A thematic approach parallels the traditional chronological sequencing in Western music history classes. Three themes include people and communities that suffer from various kinds of exclusion: Locales & Locations; Forms & Factions; Responses & Reception. Each theme is designed to uncover a different cultural facet that is often minimized in traditional music history classrooms but which, if explored, lead to topics in which other perspectives and people can be included organically in the curriculum, while not excluding canonical composers.

Shepherd's Hey

Shepherd's Hey
Author: R. Mark (CRT) Rogers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 16
Release: 1994-07-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781581060966

Southern Music