CALL FOR (EXTRA) PAPERS: CHINESE INSTRUMENTS AND WESTERN MUSEUMS

CHINESE INSTRUMENTS AND WESTERN MUSEUMS

CHIME/CMA WORKSHOP, 13-16 SEPT 2012

 

CALL FOR (EXTRA) PAPERS:

SESSION IN MEMORY OF A. SCHIMMELPENNINCK (1962-2012)

 

Antoinet Schimmelpenninck, co-founder of CHIME and ardent collector and researcher of Chinese folk songs, died of cancer in her hometown, Leiden, The Netherlands, on 15 April 2012. She was 49. Antoinet will be remembered as a passionate fieldworker, a fine scholar in the realm of Chinese music research, a warmhearted personality, and one of the driving forces behind CHIME from the very time when this platform started in the early 1990s.

We would like to commemmorate Antoinet with an extra session tagged on to the CHIME/CMA meeting at Leiden University from 13 to 16 September 2012.

For the Leiden meeting, we have received a promising series of panel and paper proposals, discussing Chinese musical instruments collections and research both in China and in the West, and offering concrete proposals for collaborative research and database creation projects.

A list of participants will be announced soon on the CHIME and CMA (Chinese Music Archive Hong Kong) websites.

For the extra session devoted to Antoinet Schimmelpenninck's scholarly work and interests, we would like to invite extra presentations on Chinese music, in the realms of folk song, shadow puppet theatre, story-singing, silk and bamboo music, guqin and ancient chime bells. All of these were fields which Antoinet took an active interest in.

Proposals for 20-minute presentations (plus 5 min discussion) for this particular session can be submitted by email to Frank Kouwenhoven (chime@wxs.nl) until 15 June. (Please send abstracts in English, max. 350 words). Final decisions on this part of the programme will be announced by the end of June.

 

Information on pre-registration and booking accommodation in Leiden will follow shortly, posted on the websites of CHIME and the Chinese Music Archive in Hong Kong.

 

website CHIME: http://home.wxs.nl/~chime

website Chinese Music Archive: www.cuhk.edu.hk/mus/cma/contact_en.htm