Pan Shiji Explained

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

Biography

Pan Shiji was born in Taipei, and her family emigrated to Canada in 1974. She took piano lessons and studied composition with 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

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

• "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

Notes and References

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