Teaching Music History at National Taiwan University: Western Music in a World Context

Jen-yen Chen National Taiwan University

Keywords: Western Music History, East Asia, Taiwan

Abstract

This short essay discusses issues related to the teaching of Western music history by a US-trained historical musicology at National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, and is particularly concerned with the significances for East Asian students and audiences of the Western musical tradition.

Author Biography

Jen-yen Chen, National Taiwan University

Jen-yen Chen is currently associate professor and director of the Graduate Institute of Musicology at National Taiwan University. He received his PhD from Harvard University in historical musicology in 2000. The focus of his scholarship is music of eighteenth-century Austria, and specific areas of research include Catholic sacred music traditions, aristocratic patronage, and issues of social class in relation to the Enlightenment. More recently, he has begun to pursue work on the interactions of European and Asian cultures in the eighteenth century and their reflection of a developing global modernity. He has published articles in European, American, and Taiwanese journals and essay collections as well as edited volumes of music.

Published

2014-01-08

Issue

Vol 4 No 2 (2014): Spring 2014: Essays in Honor of Douglass Seaton

Section

Roundtable

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