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Composition of New Music for Zheng
No full text[[abstract]]Zheng, also known as Guzheng, is a traditional music instrument, and, yet, capable of producing new sounds with widely varying styles of music. Therefore, the author adopted it as the research theme of this thesis study. Improvement of this music instrument was driven by social and cultural needs of each era. Better understanding of its characteristics was achieved through investigation of the instrument evolution, technique development and the scale system. Such understandings may be applied to the composition of Zheng music. Subsequently, the author analyzed the Zheng music of contemporary Taiwanese composers. Through research on music teachers’ works, the author was able to transform the learned techniques into author’s own music expressions. Using these elements, the author composed three Zheng music pieces as a demonstration of her transforming theoretical studies into creation of new Zheng music.
This thesis comprises five chapters:
Chapter 1 is the “Introduction,” which presents the motivation and purpose of this study as well as the sequence of the study and the structure of the thesis.
Chapter 2 is the “History of Zheng,” which describes the evolution of the instrument, the playing techniques and its scale system.
Chapter 3 is the “Analysis of Zheng Music by Contemporary Taiwanese Composers,” which allows the author to transform music phrases of other composers into music expressions of the author’s own.
Chapter 4 is the “Composition of New Music for Zheng, by author” which presents the three compositions for Zheng ensembles of different sizes.
Chapter 5 is the “Conclusions,” which summarizes the important findings of this study that may serve as the guidelines for future compositions.
Optical PAM-4 signal generation using a silicon Mach-Zehnder optical modulator
No full textAn analytic model is proposed to study the linearity performance of the silicon Mach-Zehnder optical modulator. According to the simulation results, we optimize the width of the silicon rib waveguide and the location of the PN junction to improve the linearity performance. The fabricated silicon Mach- Zehnder optical modulator has a spurious free dynamic range of 113.3 dB.Hz(2/3) and 88.9 dB.Hz(1/2) for the third-order intermodulation distortion and the second-order harmonic distortion. We also demonstrate the optical fourlevel pulse-amplitude-modulation (PAM-4) signal generation through the device. The generated optical PAM-4 signal is characterized at the rates up to 35 Gbaud. The BERs of the optical PAM-4 signals can reach 5.2x10(-6) at 20 Gbaud and 6.6x10(-5) at 32 Gbaud, which are much lower than the threshold of hard decision forward error correction (3.8x10(-3)). (C) 2017 Optical Society of AmericaProgram 863 [2015AA015503, 2015AA017001]; National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFA0206402, 2016YFB0402501]; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [61535002, 61505198, 61235001, 61575187, 61377067]SCI(E)ARTICLE1923003-230132
Nan Song Shuzhou gong du yi jian zheng li yu yan jiu Zheng li yu yan jiu
No full textBen shu shi dui wo she yu 1990 nian chu ban de ying yin ben "Song ren yi jian" de zheng li yu yan jiu. Gai shu shi liao feng fu, she ji zheng zhi, jing ji, jun shi yi ji Song dai gong wen ge shi he shu yi, shi zhen gui de shi wu wen xian. "Song ren yi jian" fan ying le bu shao nan Song shi qi di fang guan fu ji gou she zhi he xing zheng guan li zhi du, bu chong le xu duo Song dai cai zheng, shui shou zheng ce de xin cai liao, bao liu le nan Song chu nian Jiang Huai di qu zhan bei zhuang kuang de xi jie cai liao, hai shi Song dai wen shu zhi du de zhong yao cai liao, you zhu yu Song shi yan jiu de shen ru. Zheng li ben yan jin gui fan, ge shi ming xi, ji ben huan yuan le Song jian tu ban de ben lai mian mao, ju you jiao qiang de can kao jia zh
Silicon PAM-4 optical modulator driven by two binary electrical signals with different peak-to-peak voltages
No full textA translation comparison of stray birds between Zheng Zhenduo’s version and Feng Tang’s version : from the perspective of manipulation theory
No full textThis paper employed Lefevere’s Manipulation Theory to explain respectively how
three main factors of Manipulation Theory, namely patronage, ideology and poetics
controlled Zheng Zhenduo’s and Feng Tang’s translation activity of Tagore’s Stray
Birds. And then the paper will analyze their translation strategies by comparing
certain poems in Stray Birds. However, author of this paper did not aim to reconfirm
Lefevere’s Manipulation Theory, but under his theoretical framework, tried to
interpret translation phenomenon from an extra-linguistic perspective.
Through analysis and comparison, the importance of three core elements was
different in those two versions. For Zheng Zhenduo, three main elements shared equal
impacts on his translation. His individual ideology and poetics conformed to
prevailing ideology and poetics in those days, and his patronage also exerted a
positive influence, therefore his Stray Birds received favorable reviews.
In Feng Tang’s case, individual poetics played the most important role. Although his
poetics reflected literary trends to some extent, but that is still not the mainstream in
today’s literary market. The translator’s subjectivity in Feng’s version was clearly
stronger than Zheng’s. For the purpose of literary innovation and commercial interests,
patronage did not manipulate Feng’s translation too much. As a result, Feng Tang’s
Stray Birds was forced to stop sales.
Key words: Zheng Zhenduo; Feng Tang; Stray Birds; Manipulation TheoryMaster of Art
A Brief Discussion on Zheng He's Nautical Charts - And the Presentation of the Ancient-Present Contrast of Zheng He's Nautical Charts
No full textOriginally, Zheng He’s Nautical Charts were published in Wu Bei Zhi (a collection of military books, 1621), Vol. 240, compiled by Mao Yuanyi of the Ming Dynasty. The charts are thought to have been drawn in the early 15th century. For more than one hundred years, scholars worldwide have been doing research on Zheng He’s Nautical Charts and have published many books and theses. On the basis of these previous works, the author has continued to investigate the charts from the angle of marine cartography, written several papers, and compiled the Ancient-Present Contrast of Zheng He’s Nautical Charts (which were exhibited at the XIHth International Hydrographic Conference) as a chief editor. This paper describes the features of Zheng He’s Nautical Charts briefly and introduces the newly-compiled Ancient-Present Contrast of Zheng He’s Nautical Charts
The emergence of the Chinese zheng : traditional context, contemporary evolution, and cultural identity
No full textThe zheng is a Chinese long zither that was developed from a five-string folk instrument over two thousand years ago to become a concert instrument with approximately twenty million practitioners around the world today. The opposing forces of metamorphosis and continuation have dominated the evolution of the instrument with the most rapid and drastic changes to its conception and practice witnessed in the twentieth century.
This dissertation is a musical and cultural study of the zheng’s living tradition from traditional practice to contemporary evolution, with an emphasis on the transformation of its musical and cultural identity. The studied areas include composition, dissemination, performance technique, and aesthetics. These discussions reveal an underlying ancient Chinese aesthetic principle drawn from both Confucian and Taoist philosophies that applies to all developmental periods of the zheng––the relationship between sheng (generated sound) and yin (cultivated sound).
In addition to being a researcher, the author combines her four-decade long experience of performing and studying the instrument with the voices of four generations of zheng performers and those of Chinese and non-Chinese zheng composers and scholars to reveal the core musical and aesthetic elements of traditional zheng practice. Crucially this includes analyzing contemporary changes in Mainland China and North America since the twentieth century in the context of political influences, Westernization, and globalization. The author argues that the fundamental values of traditional zheng practice are still pertinent to the contemporary development of the instrument.Arts, Faculty ofMusic, School ofGraduat
Microring modulator matrix integrated with mode multiplexer and de-multiplexer for onchip optical interconnect
No full textZheng Chouyu - the life and works of the classic author of Taiwanese
No full textMým úmyslem bylo v této práci postihnout charakteristické rysy básnické tvorby, kterou se Zheng Chouyu natrvalo zapsal do dějin moderní taiwanské poezie. Snažila jsem se poskytnout co nejširší úhel pohledu na Zheng Chouyuho rané dílo a všímala si jak témat a motivů, tak i formálních a jazykových prostředků. Součástí charakteristiky stylu bylo také zamyšlení nad vztahem Zheng Chouyuho díla k tradiční čínské poezii. Soustředila jsem se na estetickou hodnotu básní a posuzovala je jako samostatné entity, i když nebylo vždy možné zcela přehlédnout společenské vlivy, které měly podíl na jejich vzniku. Centrem mého zájmu bylo čtení básní a následná analýza jazyka, techniky zpracování, témat, stylu a obraznosti. V textu jsem uvedla příklady vybraných básní typických pro dané téma nebo pro námět zpracovaný v jisté kapitole. Soustředila jsem se na interpretaci jednotlivých básní a na jejich rozbor
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