Teaching Music History at the School of Music at Soochow University: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Western Music as a Living Tradition

  • Annie Yen-Ling Liu Soochow University
Keywords: Asia, Music History

Abstract

My institution, Soochow University, has recently expanded its department of music into a school of music with a largely international faculty in performance, musicology, theory, and composition. Questions of teaching music history must be addressed by every professor teaching “music history†in a college or university, given the expansion of repertoires, methodologies, and objects of study during the last several decades. My task here is to consider specific challenges or issues concerning the teaching of musicology in China/Asia.

Author Biography

Annie Yen-Ling Liu, Soochow University
Dr. Annie Yen-Ling Liu is Associate Professor of Music History at the School of Music at Soochow University. She earned the PhD in Music History from Stanford University with a dissertation that investigated the cultural meaning of Liszt’s symphonic poems, including their relation to the Beethovenian monumental style and their function as musical monuments (“Music for the People, Music for the Future: Monumentality as Expressive and Formal Ideal in the Symphonic Poems of Franz Liszt,†2009). Professor Liu has given papers at the National Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Nineteenth Century Studies Association, German Study Association Conference, the East Asian Regional Association of the International Musicological Society, and the Liszt and Arts international conference in Budapest. She has articles published and forthcoming in Arts and Terror, Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities, and NTU Humanitas Taiwanica.
Published
2014-01-14