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IMSEA 2019 The Fifth Biennial Meeting of the International Musicological Society Regional Association for East Asia Suzhou, China, 18-20 October 2019 School of Music, Soochow University Jinji Lake, Suzhou, China IMSEA 2019 The Fifth Biennial Meeting of the International Musicological Society Regional Association for East Asia Suzhou, China, 18-20 October, 2019 School of Music, Soochow University TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome Statement 3 Committees 4 Schedule and Facilities Overview 5 Schedule Overview 5 Conference Dinner 6 Conference Location 7 Internet Availability 7 Keynote Lectures 8 Conference Program 10 Abstracts 17 Biographies of Presenters 71 About IMSEA 87 Index 88 2 WELCOME STATEMENT On behalf of the International Musicological Society’s East Asia Regional Association (IMSEA), it is my great pleasure to welcome participants to our fifth biennial conference and first to be held in the People’s Republic of China. IMSEA was founded in 2011 to realize a vision of mutually beneficial partnership among the creative and energetic yet mostly isolated musicological communities in our region. A sensitivity towards the institutional, linguistic, and cultural diversity of these communities should in fact make us hesitate to employ too readily an umbrella term such as “East Asia,” or any comparable alternatives one might think of, with their suggestions of an illusory grand unity. Having taken part in all of the four previous gatherings of IMSEA (the last held within the framework of the 2017 IMS world congress in Tokyo), I can confidently assert the vital contribution all of our individualities and unique understandings have brought to the rich dialogues which characterized these events. I hope that those of you who are participating in an IMSEA conference for the first time will find that this too is your experience of our regional association, and will be interested in remaining a part of our community well beyond 2019 (for those who like to plan ahead, we are pleased to announce our 2021 host: Kyoungpook University, located in Daegu, Korea). In most instances, each individual session at this year’s conference, though organized around a specific theme, consists of speakers from different cities and countries (and not only in East Asia!) who will bring their distinctive perspectives to a shared topic of interest and thus offer a microcosm of our internationalized spirit at work. I would like to express my special thanks to the program committee for bringing about this marvelous demonstration of collaboration. Sincere thanks go also to the School of Music of Soochow University and its administrators, faculty, student assistants, and staff for enthusiastically assuming the role of local host. Jen-yen Chen Chair, Steering Committee International Musicological Society East Asia Regional Association 3 COMMITTEES Program Committee Hui Yu, chair (Yunnan University) Meng-Tze Chu (National Tainan University of the Arts) Fuyuko Fukunaka (Tokyo University of the Arts) Youn Kim (University of Hong Kong) Kyung Myun Lee (Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Organizing Committee Yen-Ling Annie Liu, chair (Soochow University) Gavin Lee (Soochow University) Daniel Wu (Soochow University) Steering Committee Jen-yen Chen, chair (National Taiwan University) Daniel Chua (University of Hong Kong) Aya Ito (International University of Kagoshima) Youn Kim (University of Hong Kong) Meebae Lee (Chonbuk National University) Nozomi Sato (International Christian University) Fumitaka Yamauchi (National Taiwan University) Suk Won Yi (Seoul National University) Boyu Zhang (Central Conservatory of Music) IMSEA Administrative Assistant Yeoeun Lim (Seoul National University) 4 SCHEDULE AND FACILITIES OVERVIEW Schedule Overview Friday Saturday Sunday 18 October 19 October 20 October 9:00-12:00 Registration (lobby, Enling Art Center) 9:30-10:00 Opening Ceremony 10:00-10:30 ▪︎ Poster Presentations (until 18:00) 10:30-11:00 ▪︎ Individual Paper Sessions 15-17 ▪︎ Individual Paper Sessions 1-3 ▪︎ Individual Paper Sessions 6-8 ▪︎ Panel 5 11:00-11:30 ▪︎ Panel 2 11:30-12:00 12:00-12:30 12:30-13:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch 13:00-13:30 13:30-14:00 Keynote Lecture 1 Keynote Lecture 2 14:00-14:30 ▪︎ Individual Paper Sessions 9-11 14:30-15:00 Coffee Break ▪︎ Panel 3 Coffee Break 15:00-15:30 15:30-16:00 ▪︎ Individual Paper Sessions 4-5 Coffee Break ▪︎ Individual Paper Sessions 18-19 16:00-16:30 ▪︎ Panel 1 ▪︎ Panel 6 16:30-17:00 ▪︎ Individual Paper Sessions 12-14 17:00-17:30 ▪︎ Panel 4 Closing Ceremony 17:30-18:00 18:00-18:30 18:30-19:00 19:00-19:30 19:30-20:00 Conference Dinner (M-One Restaurant, World Grand 20:00-20:30 Dushulake Hotel) 5 20:30-21:00 5 Conference Dinner An optional conference dinner will take place at the M-One Restaurant in the Worldhotel Grand Dushulake, located at 299 Qiyue Street, during the evening of Saturday, October 19, from 19:00 to 21:00. This hotel is reachable by foot (10-15 minutes) from the conference venue. The dinner will offer a banquet of Suzhou cuisine, the local variant of the regional cuisine of Jiangsu Province. The cost is 300 Chinese Renminbi (RMB) and is payable by cash at the entrance to the restaurant. However, places are limited and you must make a reservation in advance through the online form at the bottom of the Registration area of the conference website. 6 Conference Venue Enling Art Center (Building 505) Soochow University School of Music, Dushu Lake Campus Suzhou Industrial Park China 215123 Internet Availability Wifi access is provided for use by delegates at the conference venue. Please connect with the network “IMSEA” (no password required). 7 KEYNOTE LECTURES Keynote Lecture 1 Friday, 18 October, 13:30-14:30, Lecture Hall The Impact of Music Learning on Speech Sound Processing and Its Underlying Neural Mechanisms Yun NAN Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University Abstract Music and language share many aspects of sensory, motor, and cognitive processing of sound. Pitch, as the percept of fundamental frequency, serves as the building block in both music and speech. In musicians and nonmusicians who spoke Mandarin Chinese, in spite of the preexisting long-term experience with lexical tones, musical experience is still linked to enhanced neural processing of speech tones as reflected by the increased mismatch negativity (MMN) amplitudes in musicians than nonmusicians. This is in line with the observed overlapped neural substrates underlying the processing of lexical tones and melodic pitch in Mandarin musicians. Conversely, for individuals with congenital amusia – a musical learning disability, the impairments in musical pitch also compromise their lexical tone processing, although not necessarily to the same extent. These correlational evidence observed in musicians and amusic groups led us to further seek causal evidence using a longitudinal design with pseudorandomized group assignments. Mandarin-speaking five-year-old children underwent piano training uniquely enhanced cortical responses to pitch changes in both music and speech, relative to an active control group with reading training and a no-contact control group. These neural enhancements further generalized to early literacy skills: compared with the controls, the piano training group also improved behaviorally in auditory word discrimination, which was correlated with their enhanced neural sensitivities to musical pitch changes. Piano training thus improves children’s common sound processing, facilitating speech sound development. These evidences imply the importance of music learning in early childhood education and rehabilitation settings to improve speech processing. 8 Keynote Lecture 2 Sunday, 20 October, 13:30-14:30, Lecture Hall The End of American Musicology James CURRIE Associate Professor, Department of Music, The University at Buffalo Abstract The idea of an international musicology is an attractive one, implying productive dialogue between different intellectual cultures and the establishment of a language of shared concerns. But however much academics today may be more globally in communication, their respective agendas remain quite distinct. In the first part of this paper, I will attempt to give some kind of account of the specific ideological foundations that motivate the predominant values of North American musicology. As I will argue, the influence these foundations wield have remained mostly unacknowledged by American musicologists themselves, who often problematically assume a certain universal self-evidence to their own value systems. In the second part of this paper, I will outline some of the limitations of American musicology that results from its ideological bias and blindness, and question to what degree it is therefore valuable as a “global export” to the international body of institutional practitioners of musicology in the twenty-first century. 9 CONFERENCE PROGRAM Friday 18 October 9:00-12:00 Registration (Lobby) Opening Ceremony (Lecture Hall) 9:30-10:00 Words of Greeting from Lei WU, Executive Dean, School of Music, Soochow University; and Daniel CHUA, President, IMS Room Lecture Hall Room G107 Room G108 Room G109 Individual Paper Individual Paper Individual Paper Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session Issues and Perspectives The Reception of Western Music and/as Political of Keyboard Music Music in Twentieth-Century Commentary China Chair Nozomi SATO Jian YANG Tobias JANZ Yuet Ka HUI Jia DENG Satoru TAKAKU From Haydn’s “Thinking- Debussy’s ‘Service’ to Hsu Tsang-Houei’s Other Fantasy-Machine” to the Modern Chinese Music: ‘Le Journal de la musique Keyboard Sonata Hob. Nationalist Sentiment and á Paris’: His Friendship 10:00-10:30 XVI:46: Empfindsamkeit Stylistic Appropriation with Japanese Poet and Fantasia Rumiko Koura and Their Reconsidered Collaborative Song ‘En revenant de la mer, hier,’ op.5-2 Akiko WASHINO Jiamin SUN Naomi TAZAKI Elucidating the Modern Mozart Reception in China Shaping the Memory of and Romantic Aspects of and the Revival of the German Occupation Josef Hofmann’s Pianism Confucianism in France? The Case of D.
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