Divided
into two sections, ‘Aesthetics and theorization’ and ‘Ritual and
contemporaneity’, this book brings together eight essays on Chinese
music sharing the same intercultural approach. In addition to
presenting the results of their latest research, the authors take into
account the lively debate held on San Giorgio during the ‘7th
International Conference of the European Foundation for Chinese Music
Research (CHIME)’, organised a few years ago in collaboration with the
‘Venice and the East’ Institute.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Luciana Galliano
Musical beauty and meaning from an intercultural perspective

Part 1
Aesthetics and theorization

Lam Ching-Wah
The concept of beauty and virtue in Chinese music in the Song and Ming dynasties

Ulrike Middendorf
Music without emotion: Xi Kang meets Hanslick

Stuart H. Sargent
‘Music’ in the world of Su Shi (1037 – 1101): the question of yue

Francois Picard
Sound and meaning: the case of martial pieces

Chan Sau Yan
The meaning of theorization in Cantonese operatic music: a study of music publications of the early twentieth century

Part 2
Ritual and the Contemporary

Francesca Tarocco
Buddhist and Daoist rituals and their musical dimensions

Tsao Penyeh
Fixity and variability in Daoist ritual music: case study of the shishi ritual (ritual of salvation for the dead) at the Baiyun temple in Shanghai

Tan Hwee-San
Journey through the underworld: music and meaning in a folk Buddhist ritual for the dead

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