"Songs of the South" - Lecture by Jenny So next Thursday (3/6)

Jenny So (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Songs of the South:
Court and Chamber Music in Ancient China

Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 4 p.m.
Grant Recital Hall
(behind the Orwig Music Building, at the corner of Hope Street and Young Orchard Avenue)
 
Dr. So is the Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She will discuss the recovery of the most complete musical ensemble (over 100 instruments) from a single tomb dating from the mid 5th century BCE in China. The lecture will look at the types of musical instruments that make up this ensemble to try to re-imagine/reconstruct the types of music played and their social, political, or philosophical implications at the time.
  
Sponsored by the Department of Music, the Joukowsky Institute for Archeology and the Ancient World, the East Asian Studies Department, the Department of History of Art and Architecture, and the Program in Ancient Studies.