YANG, CHIEN-CHANG

Assistant Professor in Musicology

Email: chienchang@ntu.edu.tw




EDUCATION

Ph.D. in History and Theory of Music, The University of Chicago (2002)

M.A. in History and Theory of Music, The University of Chicago (1996)

B.A. in Theory and Composition of Music, Chinese Culture University (1989)


ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES

Assistant Professor, Institute of Music, National Chiao-Tung University (2004.8-)

Distinguished Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica (2004.1-2004.7)

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Musicology, National Taiwan University (2003.2-)

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Musicology, National Sun Yat-Sen University (2003.9-2004.7)

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Shi Chien University (2002.9-2003.7)

Lecturer, Department of Music, The University of Chicago (Fall 1998, Fall 1996)

Research Assistant, Black Music Center at the Columbia Collge, Chicago (1996)

Teaching Assistant, Department of Music, The University of Chicago (Fall 1994-Winter 1995)


HONOR

Distinguished Postdoctoral Scholar, Academia Sinica, 2004

Dissertation Fellowships, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (1999.07¡V2000.06)

Research Grants for PhD Candidates and Recent PhDs, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, 1998)

Governmental Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies, Ministry of Education, Taiwan, (July 1995.07¡V1998.02)

Special Music Fund, The University of Chicago (1992-1995)


RESEARCH INTERESTES

European Music History
Music Theory
History of Western Music Theory
History of Music Historiography
Critical Theory of Music


COURSES

Spring 2005
Seminar: Carl Dahlhaus and the Rewriting of European Music History

Spring 2004
Seminar: European Music and the Enlightenment (NTU)

Spring 2003
Seminar: Music Historiography (NTU)


PUBLICATIONS

(A) Articles

“History of Sensations, Music, Kraft: On Johann Gottfried Herder’s Theory of Hearing.”
New History 18, no. 3 (2007): 139-178. [In Chinese]

"Carl Dahlhaus's Idea of 'Structural History' and the Tension between Historicity and Art Charcters," Humanitas Taiwanica 61 (November, 2004), 25¡V52 [in Chinese]

"Beethoven and Confucius: A Case Study in Transmission of Cultural Values," Xiwan Arts Review 2 (2003), 124-34. (in Chinese)

Book Review: "W. J. Mathieu: Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression." In Notes 56, no. 3 (2000), 687¡V689.


(B) Dissertation

"Music as Knowledge: Hugo Riemann's Theory of Musical Listening and the Foundation of German Musikwissenschaft," Ph.D. diss., The University of Chicago, 2002.


(C) Conference papers

“Space: A New Keyword for Musicological Research.”
Paper delivered at the conference of Taiwan Musicology Forum 2007. Taipei, Taiwan, 14-15 December 2007.

“Musical Identity and Difference in a Reorganized Global Space.”
Paper delivered at the conference of Identitaet und Differenz: Soundbridges - Neue Musik aus Sudostasien und Taiwan. Berlin, Germany, September 2007.

“Music, Dance, Tsai Rueiyue: On Formosan Bodies.”
Paper delivered at the conference of Tsai Jui-Yueh Dance Festival I-Forum. Taipei, Taiwan, 11 November 2006.

“Kraft, Trieb, and Wille: ‘Energetic’ Representations of Music and Their Meaning in Musical Modernity.”
Paper delivered at the conference of Taiwan Musicology Forum 2006. Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 1-2 December 2006.

“Tensions of Value Judgments in Writing Music History: On Carl Dahlhaus’s Adorno Critique.”
Paper delivered at the conference of Taiwan Musicology Forum, Taipei, Taiwan, 11-12 November 2005.

"Sympathetic Vibrations of the Body and the Soul: On Herder's Theory of Hearing"
International Conference on Body and Cognition (Taipei, 2005.6)

"Enlightenment or Anti-Enlightenment? On Herder's Theory of Listening and Its Position in the Boody-Mind Controversy" [in Chinese]
Conference on the Musical Enlightenment, National Sun Yat-Sen University, (Kaohsiung, 2005.3)

"Historical Dialectics in Music Theory" [in Chinese]
Conference on the Theory and Application of Music (Taipei, 2002.11)

"Beethoven and Confucius: A Case Study in Transmission of Cultural Values" International Congress of the Musicological Society of Japan in Celebration of the 50 th Anniversary (Shizuoka, Japan, 2002.11)

"Beethoven and Confucius: A Case Study in Transmission of Cultural Values"
Annual Meeting, American Musicological Society (Columbus, 2002.10)

"Disciplining Music: Hugo Riemann's Music Aesthetics and the Nineteenth-Century German Psychology"
Annual Meeting, American Musicological Society (Boston, 1998.10)

"Hugo Riemann's 'Musical Logic' and the Neo-Kantian Epistemology"
Annual Meeting, Society for Music Theory (Baton Rouge, 1996.11)


(d) Other publications

Concert Review: "In Search of a Formosan Gesture," Performing Arts Review 133 (2004.01)


LECTURES

"Helmholtz's Physiological Acoustics, Hugo Riemann's Musical Epistemology, and the Grounding of German Musikwissenschaft"
History of Human Sciences Workshop, Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine, The University of Chicago, (2001.02)

"Die Musikästhetik und der Begriff 'Seelenbewegung' Hugo Riemanns"
Colloquium, Lehrstuhl für Musiksoziologie und Sozialgeschichte der Musik, Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (1998.7)

"Conflicting Structures in Carl Dahlhaus's 'Structural History',"
Colloquium, Graduate Institute




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