{"id":978,"date":"2018-12-17T09:23:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T08:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/?p=978"},"modified":"2023-08-25T21:40:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T20:40:19","slug":"university-of-taipei-department-of-musicology-visiting-lecture-organic-and-geometric-aspects-of-musical-composition-2018-12-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/?p=978","title":{"rendered":"University of Taipei, Department of Musicology visiting lecture: &#8220;Organic and Geometric Aspects of Musical Composition&#8221; (11th Dec. 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m grateful to the inspiring Pan Jia Lin, Professor of Composition at Taiwan&#8217;s oldest university, the University of Taipei \uff08\u53f0\u5317\u5e02\u7acb\u5927\u5b66\uff09, for her invitation to give a lecture to the students of the musicology department.\u00a0 I had originally planned to give an adapted version of the lecture I previously gave in Zhejiang in May, but Professor Pan requested that I add more material on other composers&#8217; music, and I ended up adding so much material that I gave an entirely new lecture, including material on Rochberg, Schoenberg, Varese, Guillaume Dufay, Xenakis and Part.\u00a0 They were great students, engaged and friendly.\u00a0 Good luck in your studies!<\/p>\n<p>While in Taipei, I took the chance to visit the former residence of Chinese author and inventor Lin Yu Tang, perched on the hills North of Taipei (pictures below).\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t know Lin Yu Tang, his extraordinary\u00a0<em>Moment in Peking<\/em>\u00a0\uff08\u4eac\u534e\u70df\u4e91\uff09is well worth investigating.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-987\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Taipei-City-University-Lecture-Dec.18.jpg?resize=810%2C596&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" 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