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Pan Shiji

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Pan Shiji or Chew Shyh-Ji (Chinese: 潘世姬; born 29 July 1957) is a Taiwanese composer, writer and music educator.

Biography

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Pan Shiji was born in Taipei, and her family emigrated to Canada in 1974. She took piano lessons and studied composition with Hsu Tsang-houei [zh] in Taiwan. In Canada, she studied composition with Robert Turner at the University of Manitoba from 1976 to 80 and then in America studying with Chou Wen-chung at Columbia University, New York, from 1980 to 1988. During this time, she worked at the Columbia Center for Ethnomusicology. In 1988, she returned to Taiwan and took a position as professor of composition at the National Academy of the Arts.[1] Her manuscripts are housed in the Liu Collection, Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg.[2]

Works

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Selected works include:

Orchestra:

  • Dream World, 1979
  • Music for Orchestra, 1980
  • 3 Pieces, 1982
  • Raining Night, 1997–9

Vocal:

  • The Lodge Amid the Bamboos, 1980
  • Paiju sanshou [3 Haiku], 1991
  • 3 Songs (Pan), 1996
  • In the Dark (Pan), 1998
  • Qiu Lu, 1998

Chamber and solo instrument:

  • Music for Hn and Pianoforte, 1979
  • Music for Pianoforte, 1979
  • Wind Quintet, 1979
  • Brass Quintet, 1980
  • String Quartet in 1 Movement, 1980
  • Ensemble, 1981
  • Hudson River Caprice, 1981
  • String Quartet, 1981
  • Piece, 1984
  • String Quartet no.1, 1985
  • String Quartet no.2, 1986
  • String Quartet no.3, 1988
  • Dubai de nigu [The Soliloquy of Pandora], 1990
  • Configuration – Transformation – Shape
  • Shapes, 1996
  • Si, 1997
  • String Quartet no.4, 1998

Writings

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  • "Wei'erdi de geju yu guojia yishi" [Nationalism in Verdi's operas], Lishi yuekan, xiii/2 (1989)
  • "Genji monogatari de yinyue shenghuo: shitan yazhou yinyue wenhua jiaoliu" [Musical life in the Tale of Genji: a study in Asian musical exchange], Yishu pinglun (1990), no.10
  • "Anuo Xunbaike xunzhao shi'eryin zuopin hesheng ji qushi de tongyixing" [Schoenberg in search of harmonic and formal unity], Yishu pinglun (1993), no.10; (1995), no.10
  • "Ershi shiji yinyue xin shengsi" [New ideas on 20th-century music] Biaoyan yishu zazhi (1994), no.9

References

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  1. ^ Mittler, Barbara (1997). Dangerous tunes: the politics of Chinese music in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the People's Republic of China since 1949. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 9783447039208.
  2. ^ Mittler, Barbara (2001). "Pan Shiji [Chew Shyh-Ji]", Grove Music Online. Accessed 4 February 2011. (subscription required). (Online version of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition. ISBN 978-0-19-517067-2)