The Birth of a New Mode? Chaozhou Modal Theory,Chaozhou Modal Practice

intriguing essay here: http://research.umbc.edu/efhm/8/dujunco/index.html

contents:

The Birth of a New Mode? Modal Entities in the Chaozhou Xianshi
String Ensemble Music Tradition of Guangdong, South China
Mercedes M. Dujunco

Introduction
1. Chaozhou Modal Theory
2. Chaozhou Modal Practice
3. The Birth of a New Mode?
Notes
Glossary incl. Chinese characters
Names incl. Chinese characters
Works Cited

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Hanuman Zhang, _Gomi no sensei_ [Master of junk]
I Ching Poetry Engine: http://levitated.net/exhibit/iching/images.html

"To live is to scrounge, taking what you can in order to survive. So,
since living is scrounging, the result of our efforts is to amass a pile of
rubbish." - Chuang Tzu/Zhuangzi, China, 4th Century BCE

"The most beautiful order is a heap of sweepings piled up at random." -
Heraclitus, Greece, 5th Century BCE

"...So what is life for? Life is for beauty and substance and sound and
colour; and even those are often forbidden by law [socio-cultural conventions].
. .Why not be free and live your own life? Why follow other people's rules
and live to please others?..." ~Lieh-Tzu/Liezi, Taoist Sage (c. 450- 375 BCE)

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, czhang23@a... wrote:
>
> intriguing essay here:
http://research.umbc.edu/efhm/8/dujunco/index.html

Thanks for posting this. I've given people references to a single
page by this author before, but of course it's much nicer to have a
whole article! I will forward . . .

-Paul

In a message dated 2004:01:12 06:09:51 PM, paul-e writes:

>--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, czhang23@a... wrote:
>
>> intriguing essay here:
>
>http://research.umbc.edu/efhm/8/dujunco/index.html
>
>Thanks for posting this.

Most welcome.

> I've given people references to a single
>page by this author before, but of course it's much nicer to have a
>whole article! I will forward . . .

Yes, also the <A HREF="http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/kiosk/index.html">
Ethnomusicology Kiosk</A>
http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/kiosk/index.html
is a great resource for more real-world tuning theory applications...
I just discovered it and the Voices of the Past linkie below my sig.line
yesterday...

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Hanuman Zhang, _Gomi no sensei_ [Master of junk] & websurfer

I Ching Poetry Engine: http://levitated.net/exhibit/iching/images.html

Voices of the Past:
http://advancement.uark.edu/pubs/Research_Frontiers/fall_2001/05_Feature1.html

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, czhang23@a... wrote:
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> In a message dated 2004:01:12 06:09:51 PM, paul-e writes:
>
> >--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, czhang23@a... wrote:
> >
> >> intriguing essay here:
> >
> >http://research.umbc.edu/efhm/8/dujunco/index.html
> >
> >Thanks for posting this.
>
> Most welcome.
>
> > I've given people references to a single
> >page by this author before, but of course it's much nicer to have
a
> >whole article! I will forward . . .
>
> Yes, also the <A
HREF="http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/kiosk/index.html">
> Ethnomusicology Kiosk</A>
> http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/kiosk/index.html
> is a great resource for more real-world tuning theory
applications...
> I just discovered it and the Voices of the Past linkie below my
sig.line
> yesterday...

Thanks again! Do any of the links there explicitly describe tuning(s)?

In a message dated 2004:01:12 10:53:34 PM, paul@stretch-music.com writes:

>Thanks again! Do any of the links there explicitly describe tuning(s)?

I am still readin' them (I haven't seen anything concrete yet and haven't
seen all their links either).

--- from an interview with composer Lou Harrison:

At the end of our conversation, Harrison mentions that he is going to see
the new film Lord of the Rings.
"I have a little story about that," he says, pausing until I indicate I'm
interested. "When the book first came out it was reviewed in Analogue Science
Fiction Magazine and given a big push." But when Harrison asked that it be
purchased by the local library for the children's collection, he was told that
unfortunately there wasn't enough potential readership for the book to justify
it's purchase price.
"Of course by the next two months it was a national sensation. I didn't go
back and say, 'Now look,' but it was entertaining."

z

"The whole world of musics and instruments lives around us. I am interested
in a 'transethnic,' a planetary music." - Lou Harrison (Europe--a region
Harrison called Northwest Asia)