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Msuic & Culture: Chinese-Western Musical Exchange from the 16th-20th Centuries
A symnposium featuring the exchange of Chinese and Western music from the 16th-20th centuries.
Where
Conference Schedule
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast & Registration, Room Harney 232
9:30 - 9:40 a.m. Welcome
Xiaoxin Wu, USF Ricci Institute
Melissa Dale, USF Ricci Institute
9:40 - 11:00 a.m. SESSION I: Celestial Harmonies
Joyce Lindorff, Temple University
Matteo Ricci’s Eight Songs for a Western Keyboard Instrument
David Francis Urrows, Hong Kong Baptist University
The Pipe Organ and the Jesuits in China: A Brief Survey
11:00 - 11:20 a.m. Break
11:20 - 1:00 p.m. SESSION II: Music in Cosmopolitan Shanghai
Hon-Lun Yang, Hong Kong Baptist University
The Shanghai Conservatory, Chinese Musical Life and the Russian Diaspora,
1928-1949
Jeremy Leong, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Erwin Felber: A Jewish Music Scholar in Republic Shanghai
Chun Zen Huang, National Taiwan Normal University
Operatic Activity in the Shanghai Settlement: Reflections from Chinese Society
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 - 3:40 p.m. SESSION III: Modern and Contemporary Musical Exchange
Adam Cathcart, Pacific Lutheran University
Musical Diplomacy in the Opening of China, 1971-1973
S. Andrew Granade, UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance
Forging a New Ritual: China’s Aesthetic Influence on Harry Partch
Yen-Ting Chao, National Taiwan University
The Construction of Native Identity through Jazz in Taiwan
4:00– 5:00 p.m. Tour of the Ricci Institute and Reception
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