Power, Beauty and Meaning

ISBN 88 222 5489 9

Il
volume, articolato nelle due sezioni “Estetica e teorizzazione” e
“Rituale e contemporaneità”, raccoglie otto saggi sulla musica cinese
che condividono un saldo approccio interculturale. Oltre a presentare i
risultati delle loro più recenti ricerche, gli autori tengono anche
conto del vivace dibattito che si tenne a San Giorgio in occasione
della “7th International Conference of the European Foundation for
Chinese Music Research (CHIME)”, organizzata alcuni anni fa in
collaborazione con l’Istituto “Venezia e l’Oriente”.

INDICE

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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