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SUMMARY:Book Talk - Kingaku Hakki: Elucidations on Qin Studies
DESCRIPTION:In eighteenth-century Japan\, scholars undertook an 
 extraordinary experiment: they reimagined the Chinese seven-stringed 
 qin—long regarded as the most elite of literati instruments—through 
 Japan’s own musical systems. This encounter produced not mere imitation\, 
 but a new theory of sound\, tuning\, and musical order. Running counter to 
 the government-sponsored project led by the legacy of Ogyuu Sorai in the 
 1710’s\, Yamagata Daini’s Kingaku Hakki (1763) was a groundbreaking 
 treatise that unabashedly applied indigenous Japanese ritsuryō pitch 
 systems onto the tuning while justifying its use with Confucian music 
 traditions and Chinese theory.   \n\nYamagata’s ideas\, however\, proved 
 as dangerous as they were innovative. In 1767 he was executed by the 
 Tokugawa shogunate for lèse-majesté\, and his musical writings were 
 sealed away\, unread and effectively erased from the canon. For over two 
 centuries\, Kingaku Hakki remained buried—its theoretical breakthroughs 
 unrecognized\, its challenge to musical and political authority silenced. 
 \n\nIn this book talk\, Juni L. Yeung will introduce the first English 
 translation and study of Kingaku Hakki\, and demonstrate through recordings 
 and live performance the thought process of gagaku in transcription and its 
 changes as it traverses instruments\, cultures\, and time. \n\nThe book 
 talk will be moderated by Hippocrates Cheng\, Assistant Professor of Music 
 Theory and Composition\, Binghamton University.\n\n\nJuni L. Yeung received 
 an M.A. in History from the University of Toronto\, is a seventh-generation 
 Shu School (Chengdu Ye branch) qin player\, and serves as chairperson of 
 the Toronto Guqin Society. Her 2010 publication Standards of the Guqin is 
 the international bestseller for learning the instrument in English. 
 \n\nDr. Hippocrates Cheng 鄭靖楠 is a composer\, theorist\, 
 ethnomusicologist from Hong Kong. He is currently an assistant professor of 
 music theory and composition and an affiliated faculty of Asian and Asian 
 American Studies at Binghamton University. As a composer\, he writes 
 contemporary classical music\, new music for Asian instruments\, and Jazz. 
 As a researcher\, he researches the music of Hong Kong composer Doming 
 Lam\, East Asian and Southeast Asian music\, piano rolls and player piano 
 in early Jazz history and Braille music notation. He has given guest 
 lectures\, masterclasses and performances in the United States\, Canada\, 
 Austria\, Germany\, China\, Japan\, Malaysia\, Thailand and Vietnam. He has 
 presented his research at numerous national and international conferences\, 
 including those organized by AMS\, AMIS\, IAML\, ICTMD\, ISJAC\, APME\, and 
 others.
LOCATION:Music Library\, St. George (Downtown) Campus
ORGANIZER;CN="Music Library":MAILTO:music.library@utoronto.ca
CATEGORIES:Lecture
CONTACT;CN="Music Library":MAILTO:music.library@utoronto.ca
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