Locating East Asia in Western art music
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Locating East Asia in Western art music
Wesleyan University Press, c2004
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-304) and index
Contents of Works
- Intercultural synthesis in postwar Western art music : historical contexts, perspectives, and taxonomy
- Fusion or fission : the paradox and politics of contemporary Chinese avant-garde music
- The cultural politics of Japan's modern music : nostalgia, nationalism, and identity in the interwar years
- Two practices confused in one composition : Tan Dun's Symphony 1997 : heaven, earth, man
- John Zorn and the postmodern condition
- Music from the right : the politics of Toshirō Mayuzumi's Essay for string orchestra
- Henry Cowell and his Chinese music heritage : theory of sliding tone and his orchestral work of 1953-1965
- The evolution of Chou Wen-chung's variable modes
- Musical syncretism in Isang Yun's Gasa
- Contemporary Japanese music : a lecture by John Cage
- Tōru Takemitsu, on sawari
- Wenren and culture
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ISBN 9780819566614
Description
The traditional musics of China, Japan and Korea have been an important source of inspiration for many Western composers. Some, like Chou Wen-chung and John Cage, have moved beyond superficial borrowing of "Eastern" musical elements in earnest attempts to understand non-Western principles of composition. At the same time many Asian composers, often trained in the West or in Western music traditions, have been using Aisan elements to create works of unique musical synthesis. As a result of such cultural interpenetrations, the landscape of Western art music has been irreversably altered. This book presents a comparative study of Asian-influenced Western composers and Western-influenced Asian composers, and an exploration of this cross-cultural exchange. Bringing together work by music theorists, musicologists and ethnomusicologists, it explores how musical notions of East and West are constructed and utilized by composers, and re-evaluates the many ways East Asian composers have contributed to developments in 20th century music. Some of the composers that are discussed include John Cage, Isang Yun, John Zorn and Toshiro Mayuzumi.
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: pbk. ISBN 9780819566621
Description
The traditional musics of China, Japan and Korea have been an important source of inspiration for many Western composers. Some, like Chou Wen-chung and John Cage, have moved beyond superficial borrowing of "Eastern" musical elements in earnest attempts to understand non-Western principles of composition. At the same time, many Asian composers, often trained in the West or in Western music traditions, have been using Asian elements to create works of unique musical synthesis. As a result of such cultural interpenetrations, the landscape of Western art music has been irreversably altered.
Locating East Asia in Western Art Music is a comparative study of Asian-influenced Western composers and Western-influenced Asian composers, and the first sustained exploration of this cross cultural exchange. Bringing together work by music theorists, musicologists and ethnomusicologists, this book explores how musical notions of East and West are constructed and utilized by composers, and reevaluates the many ways East Asian composers have contributed to developments in twentieth century music. Composers discussed include John Cage, Toru Takemitsu, Chou Wen-chung, Toshiro Mayuzumi, Isang Yun, Tan Dun, John Zorn, and Henry Cowell.
CONTRIBUTORS: Hugh De Ferranti, Yayoi U. Everett, Judith Herd, Ellie Hisama, Eric Lai, Frederic Lau, Fredric Lieberman, Steven Nuss, Nancy Rao, and Yu Siuwah.
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