National Taiwan Normal University Course Outline
Spring , 2025

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I.Course information
Serial No. 1854 Course Level Master
Course Code EMM0105 Chinese Course Name 東亞音樂與現代性
Course Name Music and Modernity of East Asia
Department Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology
Two/one semester 1 Req. / Sel. Sel.
Credits 2.0 Lecturing hours Lecture hours: 2
Teach in English Y Teach in National Languages
Prerequisite Course ◎1. This course is not available for undergraduate students. 2. If the listed course is a doctoral level course, it is only available for PhD students.
Comment Location: 2F, No. 31, Shi-da Rd.
Course Description
Day & Class Period/Location Thur. 6-7 Heping 11111
Curriculum Goals Corresponding to the Departmental Core Goal
1. To understand musics of East Asia in relation to their cultures To analyze the modern condition of musics of East Asia Master:
 1-2 Understand the theories and concepts of ethnomusicology and be able to do research independently.
 2-1 Be able to teach in a systematic way the music you perform.
2. To develop analytical approaches of musical modernity Master:
 2-2 Be able to conduct research on the performance techniques, music theory and styles of a specific type of music, becoming an educator in the field of ethnomusicology.
 3-1 Have respect for different musical art forms.
3. To reflect on one’s musical experience in relation to East Asia and modernity Master:
 1-1 Develop proficiency in the performance of diverse musics.
 3-2 Respect individual expression and have the ability to get along with others in a group environment.
 4-2 Uphold the original state of traditional music art forms, representing the essence of music repertoires.

II. General Syllabus
Instructor(s) CHEUNG, Joys Hoi Yan/ 張海欣
Schedule
Week 1: 2/20

Introduction

Week 2: 2/27

“East Asian Musics”; English language practice

Provine, Tokumaru, and Witzleben, “An Introduction to East Asian Musics and Cultures,” in Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 7: East Asia

Week 3: 3/6

Chinese Musical Modernity: “Translation,” the Sublime, or the Qin Ear

Joys H. Y. Cheung, “Singing Ancient Piety and Modernity in ‘Song of Familial Bliss’ (1935): Musical Translation of Huang Zi (1904-1938) in Interwar China,” Asian Music 2010: 41(2)

OR

Joys H. Y. Cheung, “Riding the Wind with Mozart’s ‘Jupiter’ Symphony: The Kantian and Daoist Sublime in Chinese Musical Modernity” (Music & Letters, 96/4(2015): 534-363)

OR

Joys H. Y. Cheung, “Pleasing the Ear or Not: Listening to Qin Music in Shanghai during the Interwar Period,” 音樂研究 / Journal of Music Research 2015: 23

Week 4: 3/13

Traditional Strings and Japanese Modernity

Philip Flavin, “Tateyama Noboru: Osaka, Modernity and Bourgeois Musical Realism for the Koto,” in Hugh de Ferranti and Alison Tokita eds., Music, Modernity and Locality in Prewar Japan

OR

Silvain Guignard and Komoda Haruko, “Modern Forms of Biwa Music in Osaka and the Kansai Region,” in Hugh de Ferranti and Alison Tokita eds., Music, Modernity and Locality in Prewar Japan

Week 5: 3/20

Traditional Aesthetics in Contemporary Japanese Music

“Toru Takemitsu on Sawari,” trans. and annotated by Hugh de Ferranti and Yayoi Uno Everrett, in Everrett and Lau, eds., Locating East Asia in Western Art Music

 

Week 6: 3/27

Composers of East Asian modernity (film 1)

Isang Yun inbetween North and South Korea

* submit CD album oral report title 

Week 7: 4/3

(Week of Tomb Sweeping Festival and Children Festival holidays)

Week 8: 4/10

Korean traditional ensemble in modernity

YooMin Wang (guest lecturer), “Changdan: Rhythmic Modes in Traditional Korean Music and its Modern Uses”

Reference: 

Donna Kwon, “Chapter 3 The Politics of Preservation and Revival in Instrumental Music,” in Music in Korea: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (OUP, 2012). (the sections on sanjo and changdan)

Week 9: 4/17

Syncretism in Contemporary Korean Music

Jeongmee Kim, “Musical Syncretism in Isang Yun’s Gasa,” in Everett and Lau, eds., Locating East Asia in Western Art Music

Week 10: 4/24

Local Stylistics in Early Modern Taiwanese Music

Wang, Ying-fen. 2012. “Zhang Fuxing’s Musical Negotiation between Tradition and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan”. In The World of Music, Special Issue: Colonial Modernity and East Asian Musics, edited by Hugh de Ferranti and Yamauchi Fumitaka, vol. I, 15–46

Week 11: 5/1

CD album oral report

(Film: Toru Takemitsu and film music OR  Chou Wen-chung, Composer of Confluence
https://chouwenchung.org/2019/02/08/chou-wen-chung-composer-of-confluence/)

Week 12: 5/8

Ena Aldecoa (University of the Filippines), Art song performance workshop / masterclass

* final project title and description submission due

 

Week 13: 5/15

Review; feedback on film review, oral reports; consultation on final project

Week 14: 5/22

Composers of East Asian modernity (film 2)

Kwaidan (dir. Masaki Kobayashi 小林正樹, 1965)

Week 15: 5/29

CAL consultation for final project oral presentation, film review essay (final project essay)

Week 16: 6/5

Final project oral presentation

Week 17: 6/12

Final project submission; Film review essay submission

Instructional Approach
Methods Notes
Formal lecture  
Group discussion  
Media, audio, visual materials  
Case studies  
Grading assessment
Methods Percentage Notes
Assignments 35 % Film review essay + CD Album Oral Report
Class discussion involvement 20 %  
Attendances 5 %  
Presentation 40 % oral report (20%) + written essay (20%)
Required and Recommended Texts/Readings with References

Selected General References (monographs or edited volumes):

de Ferranti, Hugh and Alison Tokita, eds., Music, Modernity and Locality in Prewar Japan: Osaka and Beyond (Routledge 2013)

Everett, Yayoi Uno and Frederick Lau, eds., Locating East Asia in Western Art Music (Wesleyan University Press, 2004)

Galliano, Luciana, Yogaku: Japanese Music in the Twentieth Century (Scarecrow Press, 2002)

Hesselink, Nathan, ed., Contemporary Directions: Korean Folk Music Engaging the Twentieth Century and Beyond (UC Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2002)

Kwon, Donna Lee. Music in Korea: Experiencing Music, Experiencing Culture (OUP, 2011)

Lau, Frederick. Music in China: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (OUP, 2007)

Matsue, Jennifer Milioto, Focus: Music in Contemporary Japan (Routledge, 2016)

Richards, E. Michael and Kazuko Tanosaki, eds., Music of Japan Today (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008)

Tokita, Alison McQueen and Joys H. Y. Cheung, eds., The Art Song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950 (Routledge, 2023)

Utz, Christian and Frederick Lau, eds., Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities—Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West (Routledge, 2013)

Wade, Bonnie. Music in Japan: Experiencing Music, Experiencing Culture (OUP, 2004)

"East Asia," in The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, vol. 7 (Routledge, 2002)

Music Recordings:

Alexander Street Music Online(e-database): I can share my collection after you have searched Alexander

Journals for your project references (choose from the following only):

Ethnomusicology (Society for Ethnomusicology SEM)
Ethnomusicology Forum (British Forum for Ethnomusicology)
The Yearbook for Traditional Music (International Council for Traditional Music ICTM)
Acta Musicologica (International Musicological Society IMS)
Asian Music
The World of Music
Music & Letters

Others (E.g. Journal of the American Musicological Society, popular music related, anthropology related)

E-Databases:
  -Journals-
JSTOR, ProQuest, Music Index, Project MUSE, RILM

  -Dictionaries or Encyclopedias-
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (in Alexander Street Music Online)
Oxford Music Online
Grove Music Online

English Language References & Resources:
  -References-

* You are expected to purchase a copy of at least one item

廖柏森, 朱雯琪,《論文全英語發表:800句學術口語報告 句型與應用(MP3免費下載) (眾文,2022):https://www.books.com.tw/products/0010919261?loc=P_0005_002

 

Swales, J. M. Academic Writing for Graduate Students Edition: Essential Tasks and Skill (University of Michigan Press, 2012):https://www.books.com.tw/products/F012723573

  -Centers-

NTNU CAL (Center for Academic Literacy):https://www.cal.ntnu.edu.tw/index.php/en/main/

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