[Smt-talk] Chinese music theory

[Jeffrey Perry]

Eric--
    Thank you for the information. It has seemed to me for several years
that North American and European music scholars should find ways to
communicate on a two-way basis with Asian music scholars, even if
(especially if) what the latter are up to doesn't fit Euro-American notions
of what music theory and analysis should encompass.
    For most of us in the West, unfortunately, this will require translation
of articles, colloquia, and reviews from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi,
etc. The other half of the exchange would require redoubled efforts to make
recent western-language work accessible in those languages; it's great to
hear that a few recent textbooks, at least, are indeed available in
Mandarin. But it would be more interesting to get feedback and original work
from Chinese and other Asian musicians and scholars that draws on recent
analytical and theoretical work beyond the level of undergraduate textbooks.
    I floated this idea at an SMT committee meeting a few years ago and it
was roundly welcomed as a commendable thing, but the people in the room at
the time (including myself) didn't have any clear sense of how to proceed.
Perhaps some day...
Best,
jp
Jeff Perry
Professor of Music Theory
275 Music and Dramatic Arts
School of Music, College of Music & Dramatic Arts
Louisiana State University
jperry at lsu.edu / (225) 578-3556 (voice) / (225) 578-3333 (fax)

On 9/18/09 7:45 PM, "Lai, Eric C." <Eric_Lai at baylor.edu> wrote:

> For mainland China, as far as I know, there is no periodical that deals
> exclusively with music theory.  However, for current research in music theory
> on both Western and non-Western music, I'd check out the journals affiliated
> with the Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing), Shanghai Conservatory of
> Music, and China Conservatory of Music (Beijing) (the last one publishes
> mainly articles on traditional Chinese music).  All three journals contain
> articles that cover a variety of disciplines including theory, history,
> aesthetics, ethnomusicology, music education, etc.  All have TOC in English,
> and one even includes abstracts in English.  They do publish Chinese
> translations of contributions originally written in other languages.  Below
> are links to the Chinese pages of the journals and their emails.
> Unfortunately, the English-version pages are either blank or under
> construction.
> 
> Zhongyang yinyue xueyuan xuebao [Journal of the Central Conservatory of Music]
> http://journal.ccom.edu.cn/
> xbbjb at ccom.edu.cn
> 
> Yinyue yishu [Art of Music], journal of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music
> http://www.shcmusic.edu.cn/html/yuanbao/
> musicart2000 at 163.com
> 
> Zhongguo yinyue [Chinese Music], journal of the China Conservatory of Music
> http://www.ccmusic.edu.cn/default.html (homepage of the conservatory)
> bianjibu7378 at 163.com
> 
> Hope this helps.  Perhaps others can provide info about music/music theory
> journals in Taiwan, Hong Kong, etc.
> 
> Eric Lai
> Baylor University
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>     Here's a related question: What are the peer-reviewed Chinese-language
> periodicals that publish articles of interest to music theorists, and do any
> of them publish English-language editions, or accept submissions in English?
> jp
> Jeff Perry
> Professor of Music Theory
> 275 Music and Dramatic Arts
> School of Music, College of Music & Dramatic Arts
> Louisiana State University
> jperry at lsu.edu / (225) 578-3556 (voice) / (225) 578-3333 (fax)
> 
> 
> On 9/18/09 12:51 PM, "Stephen Guy Soderberg" <ssod at loc.gov> wrote:
> 
>> There is a Chinese edition of Piston's Harmony.  I haven't had much luck
>> doing
>> a quick search for it.  Maybe your student could try Amazon.cn
>> 
>> Steve Soderberg
>> Library of Congress
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