TSAI, CHEN-GIA Assistant Professor in Musicology Email: tsaichengia@ntu.edu.tw HOMEPAGE

Selected Publications

Journal papers

Tsai CG. (1997). An preliminary study on music of Luan-Tan Xiao-Xi. Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore (TSSCI) 106, 1-29.

Tsai CG. (1997). A comparison of Chinese Nan-Xi and opera comique: the structure of He-To and vaudeville final. Arts Review 8, 163-185.

Tsai CG. (2000). Fu-Lu Sheng-Qiang of Taiwanese Luan-Tan-Xi belongs to Luan-Tan-Qiang system: evidence from tunes and repertory. Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore (TSSCI) 123, 43-88.

Tsai CG. (2004). Absolute pitch: studies in cognitive psychology. Guandu Music Journal 1, 77-92.

Tsai CG. (2005). Chaotic behavior of performer's vocalizations: an interdisciplinary study of growl voices. Taipei Theatre Journal 2, 39-62.

Tsai CG. (2006). Disease and Composing: Syphilis in Smetana, Wolf, and Schubert. Formosan Journal of Music Research 3, 91-106.

Tsai CG, Shau YW, Liu HM, Hsiao TY. Laryngeal mechanisms during human 4 kHz vocalization studied with CT, videostroboscopy, and color Doppler imaging. Journal of Voice (SCI). doi:10.1016/j.jvoice.2006.10.007.

Tsai CG, Lin YY. (2008). Contributions of epilepsy research to the psychology of music. Journal of Xinghai Conservatory of Music. 2008.1.

Tsai CG. Madness by romantic identification: Brain diseases in Xiqu. Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore (TSSCI). Accepted.

Conference papers

Tsai CG. (2003). Relating the harmonic-rich sound of the Chinese flute (dizi) to the cubic nonlinearity of its membrane (poster). Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference 2003, August 6-9.

Tsai CG. (2004). Helmholtz's nasality revisited: physics and perception of sounds with predominance of upper odd-numbered harmonics (poster). Proceedings of the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, March 31-April 3, Nara, Japan.

Tsai CG. (2004). Auditory grouping in the perception of roughness induced by subharmonics: empirical findings and a qualitative model (oral). Proceedings of the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, March 31-April 3, Nara, Japan.

Chen JH, Tsai CG. (2004). Experimental research of the flow field in a brass mouthpiece-like channel using Particle Image Velocimetry (poster). Proceedings of the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, March 31-April 3, Nara, Japan.

Tsai CG, Shau YW, Hsiao TY. (2004). False vocal fold surface waves during Sygyt singing: a hypothesis (oral). International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics, August 18-20, Marseille, France.

Tsai CG. (2004). The timbre space of the Chinese membrane flute (dizi): physical and psychoacoustical effects (invited). 148th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, November 15-19, San Diego.

Tsai CG (2005). Multi-pitch effect on cognition of solo music: examples of the Chinese flute, Jew's harp and overtone singing (oral). International Symposium on Body & Cognition, June 4-5, Taipei, Taiwan.

Tsai CG, Auhagen W. (2005). Intonation, tone range and timbre of the Chinese flute (dizi): a Duffing oscillator model of the dizi membrane (oral). Conference on Traditional Music Instruments, September 10-11, Taipei, Taiwan.

Tsai CG. (2005). Disease and composing: syphilis in Smetana, Wolf, and Schubert (oral). Taiwan Symposium on Musicology, November 11-12, Taipei, Taiwan.

Tsai CG, Hsiao TY, Shau YW, Chen JH. (2006). Towards an intermediate water wave model of vocal fold vibration: Evidence from vocal-fold dynamic sonography (oral). International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics, July 12-14 2006, Tokyo, Japan.

Tsai CG, Shau YW, Hsiao TY. (2006). Vocal fold wave velocity in the cover and body layers measured in vivo using dynamic sonography (oral). 7th International Conference on Advances in Quantitative Laryngology, Voice and Speech Research, October 6-7, 2006, Groningen, the Netherlands.

Tsai CG. (2006). Inharmonic sounds of bowed strings in Western music and Beijing opera (oral). 4th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, 28 November-2 December, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Tsai CG, Chen CC, Chen, DY, Chou TL, Chen CH, Lee CW. (2007). Musical memes and oral tradition: the role of an auditory mirror system in music transmission and cognition (oral). Music and Evolutionary Thought Conference, June 22-23, Durham, England.

Tsai CG, Chen JH, Hsiao TY, and Shau YW. (2007). A seawater-seabed model of vocal fold vibration: in-vivo measurements of amplitude attenuation and phase lag (oral). International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, 9-12 September, Barcelona, Spain.

Tsai CG. (2007). Cognitive mechanisms revealed by some forms of animal song: chunking, working memory, and self-associative memory (oral). Taiwan Symposium on Musicology, December 14-15, Taipei, Taiwan.