Open Talk: Japan’s “Chinese Music from the Perspective of Cataloguing”
Is there a “good” or “bad” in music?
Also, is there such a thing as “correct” music and “wrong” music?
In the past, Chinese people expressed their image of scholarship by classifying books. Music was regarded by scholars who were responsible for Confucianism as one of the disciplines of the “Four Books and Five Scriptures,” but there was music that suited their ideals and music that did not. The Confucians come to make a clear distinction between music books that discuss the former and those that do not.
In this open talk, I will draw an image of the music of each era from the Chinese bibliography of successive generations. And I would like to approach the question of “what is music” by comparing what kind of music discussed in Confucianism is and comparing it with the music we imagine.
- Day & Time：December 6th, 2024 (Friday), 14:00-15:00
- Venue：Lab (2nd floor of WIHL)
- Language：Japanese
- Participation：Free
- Participants：Students, Faculty and Public
- Presented by the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities, with support from the Waseda International House of Literature
Lecture
Tanaka Yuki
Associate Professor of Chinese Philosophy at the University of Tokyo
Her research focuses on Chinese music and scientific philosophy.
Publications: The Philosophy of Music in Ancient China : Zhu Zaiyu and Twelve-tone Equal Temperament (Tokyo, 2018) ; Chinese Music Theory and Twelve-tone Equal Temperament: the Philosophy of Music in Confucianism (Tokyo, 2014), and others.
Facilitator
Yi Dan
Yanai Initiative Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Contact
Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities: [email protected]
