"Ways of thinking about East Asian images of music"
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Kyoto City University of Arts Research Centre for Japanese Traditional Music Special Lecture |
| This special lecture was given by Prof.Dr. Tilman
SEEBASS, an adviser to the long-term research project on music iconography of
the Research Centre for Japanese Traditional Music. Prof.Dr. Tilman's visit to
Japan was facilitated by the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan.
The lecture, given in English, was translated by Ms.KATSUMURA Jinko, lecturer in musicology at Kunitachi College of Music and Keioo University (both in Tokyo). Time: 3:00-4:30 pm, Wednesday, November 21, 2001 Place: Lecture room 2, 4th floor, Campus Plaza Kyoto |
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"Ways of thinking about East Asian images of music"
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Photo 1 Large LCD screen at the Campus Plaza venue |
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Photo 3From the lecture (haya-raigoo ,swift descent of Amitabha
and bodhisattva musicians) |
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Photo 5 From the lecture (nanban-e, 16th-17th century Japanese
paintings on Western models) |
From the handout
1. Painter versus musician
2. Organological approaches in Western scholarship
3. Iconography and its use for reconstruction
4. Organology versus iconography
5. Visual object and visual meaning, or the signifier and the signified
6. The potential and the power of the visual - first example
7. The potential and the power of the visual - second example
8. Modes of thought - West and East
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