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Chung Chi College
Yu Siu Wah
B.A. (CUHK), M.A. (Queen's Belfast), Ph.D. (Harvard)
After completing a B.A. in Music (CUHK, 1978), Yu worked for the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Radio Television Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. He then began graduate studies, earning an M.A. in ethnomusicology from the Queen's University at Belfast and a Ph.D. in musicology from Harvard. His research interests include traditional Chinese instrumental music, musical instruments, Chinese music history, and the movie music of Hong Kong. He teaches Chinese music history and ethnomusicology at CUHK. His book, Out of Chaos and Coincidence: Hong Kong Music Culture, is published by the Hong Kong Oxford University Press (2001).
Research Interests
Chinese music history, Qing music history, compositional techniques used in Cantonese opera, music of Hong Kong, Chinese traditional instrumental music, organology.
Publications
- Theses
- "Prokofiev, The Man and His Symphonies" B.A., CUHK, 1978.
- "Three Erhu Pieces From Jiangnan" M.A., Queen's University, Belfast, 1985.
- "The Meaning and Cultural Functions of Non-Chinese Musics in the Eighteenth Century Manchu Court", Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, 1996
- Books
- 《中國民族管弦樂發展的方向與展望：中樂發展國際研討會文集》主編並序 (iv-xviii)，香港臨時市政局，1997年12月，240 pp.
- 《粵曲創作心路：作品八首》主編並序(vi-vii.)，香港中文大學粵劇研究計劃，1997，161 pp.
- 《樂在顛錯中：香港雅俗音樂文化》香港牛津出版社，2001，344頁。
- 《樂猶如此》 Such are the Fading Sounds. Hong Kong: International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC), 2005. 363 pp. Bilingual.
- Complete list of scholarly writing
- Interview by Lingnan University
Contact
Email: yux67s@cuhk.edu.hk
Office: (852) 2609-6496
Fax: (852) 2603-5273