Musical Elaborations and Experiences of Edward W. Said

• Main Authors: CHENG, Wan-Hsin, 鄭琬馨
• Other Authors: HUANG, Chun-Zen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31790987086812159555

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 民族音樂研究所 === 102 === Edward Wadie Said (1935-2003), one of the most influential cultural and literary scholars on contemporary, graduated from Princeton University (the United States) in 1957. He has gotten MA in English literature from Harvard University in 1960 and PhD in English literature from Columbia University in 1964, and taught English and Comparative Literature in Columbia University from 1963. Said had been participated Palestinian political activities over ten years as an intellectual, while didn’t stop writing and published many books and research, opened Post-colonial theory. In addition, Said was also a music critic. He learnt how to play piano, studied opera, discussed about music; he was involved in music in his whole life. He founded the “West-Eastern Divan Orchestra” in his later years, also expended much time and thought on musical education in the Middle East, and put his musical interest in practice by developing and promoting the Orchestra. This study will expound Said’s musical experiences abundantly and exquisitely, and also make a thorough inquiry how Said heading his musical experiences to musical elaborations and contributions, including many articles of music review and keynote speech (The Annual Wellek Library Lecture Series at the University of California, Irvine) of cross-subject between Comparative Literature and Musicology, citing scholarly writings from musical example, using music as evidence…etc. In last chapter, this study will elaborate the collaboration between internationally renowned pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim (1942- ) and Said in music. Especially they established an orchestra to let the young musicians all around the world have cross-cultural cooperation through the music to achieve peaceful dialogue in 1999. Using a Palestinian-American intellectual as an example, this study hope to give Taiwanese Musicology study a trivial contribution to broaden the possibility of contemplation through other cultures, nation’s issues and successful examples of important international perspectives and scholars.