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Music, Mind, and Language in Chinese Poetry and Performance

Author : Casey Schoenberger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release : 2024-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198886241

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"Poetry puts intent into words; singing lengthens words"--this is one of the earliest Chinese comments on artistic expression. Poetic language extends the reach of a sentiment beyond the individual, and musicality extends the reach of poetic language, not only across a room, but across geography and generations. The "extended mind thesis" (EMT) views minds as extending beyond individual nervous systems to include material and social environments. Music, Mind, and Language in Chinese Poetry and Performance: The Voice Extended offers a comprehensive overview of the interwoven histories of traditional Chinese poetry and performing arts. It employs cognitive and quantitative methods such as EMT, and a database of over six thousand traditional melodies, to describe cyclical, continuous interactions between social minds and material artifacts. From the ancient Canon of Poetry to the song-lyrics (ci) of the late medieval period and the dramatic arias of Kun and Beijing operas, Casey Schoenberger introduces the rhythms, melodies, pronunciation, and grammatical stylistics of the major Chinese verse and performance traditions. In doing so, he gleans insights from cognitive neuroscience, digital humanities, musicology, and linguistics to explain not only the trajectory of Chinese arts, but also bigger phenomena, like vernacularisation and improvisation.

A Topsy-Turvy World

Author : Wilt L. Idema
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 023155771X

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Playwriting in many forms flourished during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Shorter theatrical genres in particular offered playwrights opportunities for experimentation with both dramatic form and social critique. Despite their originality and wit, these short plays have been overshadowed by the lengthy masterpieces of the southern drama tradition. A Topsy-Turvy World presents English translations of shorter sixteenth-to-eighteenth-century plays, spotlighting a lesser-known side of Chinese drama. Satirical and often earthy, these mostly one-act plays depict deceit, dissembling, reversed gender roles, and sudden upending of fortunes. With zest and humor, they portray henpecked husbands, supercilious and lustful monks, all-too-human sage kings, disgruntled officials, and overreaching young scholars. These plays provide a glimpse of Chinese daily life and mores even as they question or subvert the boundaries of social, moral, and political order. Each translation is preceded by a short introduction that describes the play’s author, context, formal qualities, and textual history. A Topsy-Turvy World offers a new view of a significant period in the development of the Chinese theatrical tradition and provides insight into the role of drama as cultural critique.

Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music

Author : Maghiel van Crevel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 2009-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9047441419

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Bringing together new research on Chinese literature and music by twenty-two scholars, on topics ranging from Tang poetry to women's writing and the internet, this collection pays tribute to Wilt Idema as a leading scholar in a field of tremendous scope and diversity.

The Fu Genre of Imperial China

Author : Nicholas Morrow Williams
Publisher : ARC Humanities Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,74 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Chinese poetry
ISBN : 9781641893312

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The first volume in English to examine the fu, one of the major genres of Chinese literature, from its origins up to the late imperial era.

Book of Songs (Shi-Jing)

Author : Confucius
Publisher : Amber Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,70 MB
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781782749448

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Claimed by some to have been compiled by Confucius in the 5th century BCE, the Book of Songs is an ancient anthology of Chinese poetry. Produced using traditional Chinese bookbinding techniques, this newly-translated edition is a selected anthology of 25 classic poems presented in an exquisite dual-language edition.

New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry

Author : C. Lupke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 2007-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230610145

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This book brings together fresh research from experts on contemporary Chinese poetry, built upon one of the most glorious poetic traditions of any civilization in the world yet historically neglected by scholars in English. This comprehensive volume offers readable and provocative treatments of many of the most important Chinese poets of our age.

An Analysis of Textual Choices and Musical Settings in Four Vocal Chamber Works of Bright Sheng

Author : Ciyuan Zhu
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Music
ISBN :

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This treatise discusses Bright Sheng's four vocal chamber works: Three Chinese Poems, Two Poems from the Sung Dynasty, Three Chinese Love Songs, and may i feel said he. It will provide an interpretation of the texts and traditional Chinese literary concepts embodied in them, followed by stylistic analyses of Sheng's musical settings. Sheng's interest in using music to bridge cultural gaps and connect audiences with diverse backgrounds will be highlights in this document. Bright Sheng's vocal chamber works demonstrate his embrace of cultural elements from both Eastern and Western traditions. His distinctive musical language mixes the Chinese culture with which he grew up and the American culture he has known since moving to the United States. As Sheng explains, "Why shouldn't my music reflect that [mixture]? People acknowledge 'artistic license'; I embrace 'cultural license'-the right to reflect my appreciation and understanding of both cultures in my work." The first chapter is an introduction to Bright Sheng and his compositional approach. The subsequent chapters present analyses of the selected works, interpreting the texts as well as how Sheng's musical settings reflect significant cultural elements and text meanings.

Music, Language, and the Brain

Author : Aniruddh D. Patel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 019989017X

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In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief that music and language are processed independently. Since Plato's time, the relationship between music and language has attracted interest and debate from a wide range of thinkers. Recently, scientific research on this topic has been growing rapidly, as scholars from diverse disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, music cognition, and neuroscience are drawn to the music-language interface as one way to explore the extent to which different mental abilities are processed by separate brain mechanisms. Accordingly, the relevant data and theories have been spread across a range of disciplines. This volume provides the first synthesis, arguing that music and language share deep and critical connections, and that comparative research provides a powerful way to study the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying these uniquely human abilities. Winner of the 2008 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award.

The Matrix of Lyric Transformation

Author : Zong-qi Cai
Publisher : U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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Traces one the most important genres in early Chinese literature through a series of modes connoting varying social milieus, from folk to literati