Rethinking the Ontology of the Bunun through a Creation Project Based on Historical Sound Recordings
Yuh-Fen Tseng, received her Ph.D. from Taipei National University of the Arts, majoring in Musicology, and the Master of Arts degree from New York University, majoring in piano Performance. She is currently professor at the Music Department of National Chiayi University in Taiwan, and also served as the chairman of this department.
Yuh-Fen Tseng's music profession spans diverse fields such as musicology, ethnomusicology, music aesthetics and piano performance, and has accumulated a lot of administrative practice experience in performing arts over the years. As an ethnomusicologist, Yuh-Fen Tseng is aware of the urgency of preserving the music traditions that are quickly vanishing. Therefore, she has been devoting herself to the field-investigations of Taiwanese indigenous music for almost two decades. She recorded, transcribed and researched the music from various indigenous groups in Taiwan in order to keep them transmitted among their own cultural context.
Representative Works:
◆ The Appreciation of Western Classical Music—on Music Styles from Mediaeval Times to the Baroque Era (2001) in the field of Western Music History.
◆ Exploring the Possibilities of Musical Analysis from a Musical-Aesthetic Viewpoint (2003), Eclectic Aesthetics and Music Criticism-Philosophical Path, Critical Method and Practice (2020) in the field of Music Philosophy.
◆ I Sing with My Life: A Music Story of Bunun People, Taiwan (2007); Legend of White-Stone Mountain: A Video Recording on the Oral Music Traditions of the Seediq People and Truku People (2007); An Improvisational Study on the Vocal Music of Seediq & Truku (2011); Songs, Music and Life of Bunun : An Analysis and Interpretation of Bunun Musical Actions Based on a General Survey (2015); Tultul, Hunghung, Latuq, and Balinka—the Tribal Memories of Bunun Traditional Musical Instruments (DVD & Booklet, 2015).
◆ Cross-Domain Music Theatre: ”Seediq Balay, Let’s Dance Together!” (2018); “Crossing Ridges—Appreciating the Music Story of Bunun” (2019, 2020)
Prof. Dr.曾毓芬
國立臺北藝術大學音樂學博士、美國紐約大學鋼琴演奏碩士,現任國立嘉義大學音樂學系暨研究所專任教授。曾毓芬的音樂專業範疇跨越音樂學、民族音樂學、音樂美學和鋼琴演奏等多元領域,並長年累積大量表演藝術行政實務經驗。在此同時,她意識到臺灣原住民樂舞文化遺產正在迅速消失,因此長年致力於臺灣原住民音樂和舞蹈的保存、傳習及推廣。
代表作品:
◆ 古典音樂領域的《古典音樂賞析─從中世紀至巴洛克時期之音樂風格探微》
◆ 音樂哲學及評論領域:《從音樂美學角度論音樂分析的可能性》、《兼容美學與音樂評論─哲學路徑、批評方法與實踐》
◆ 民族音樂學領域:《我用生命唱歌─布農族的音樂故事》、《白石山下的傳說-南投賽德克族與花蓮太魯閣族的口傳音樂紀實》、《賽德克族與太魯閣族的歌樂即興系統研究》、《撒奇萊雅族樂舞》、《布農族樂舞》、《布農族人的歌‧樂‧與生命 ── 一部建立於音樂普查基礎之上的布農族音樂行為分析與文化詮釋》
◆ 跨域音樂劇場作品:《賽德克.巴萊,大家一起來跳舞吧!》以及《越嶺~~聆聽布農的音樂故事》