MUSIC CULTURE OF CHINA

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About the Author

Gene J. Cho, Regents Professor of Music, received his Ph.D. degree (music theory) from Northwestern University. His earlier education included science and economics, theology, and conducting and composition. His recent publication includes the following works: The Discovery of Musical Equal Temperament in China and Europe in the Sixteenth Century (Edwin Mellen Press, 2003), The Replica of The Ark of the Covenant in Japan: The Mystery of MiFune-Shiro (iUniverse, 2008), and Dongxifang Wenhua Shiye Zhong de Zhu Zaiyu ji qi Xueshu Chengjiu (The Scholarship and Contribution of Zhu Zaiyu in Cultural History, East and West)(Beijing, China: Central Conservatory Press, 2009). Previously, he has published several monographs and teaching manuals, as well compositions and arrangements. Nationally renowned pedagogue of music theory and of aural skills in particular, the central conviction that undergirds all of his undertakings, whether in classroom teaching, research and scholarly writing, or in authoring textbook, is that process of music education of students without providing personalized experience in music is an exercise in futility, one that may acquire a semblance of scholarship but would fail in making lasting imprint, empty words with no verifiable merit, what the ancient wisdom of China infers in the axiom "zhi-shang tan-bing" （纸上谈兵, "discoursing the art of war-fares on the paper"). Through this small publication, Dr. Cho not only shares the writings of his students from his 2006 seminar in Chinese music but, more importantly, to invite the readers, students and professors alike, to join with him in considering the meaning and examining the justification of (study in) diversity--the often-touted "multiculturalism" bandwagon of the recent decades within and without the educational institution. It is his belief that, by considering together the true (but concealed) implication in "music as a universal language," we can realize and utilize the power that is within the "language of music."