CHEONG, Wai-Ling is Professor and Chair at the Music Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received the PhD from Cambridge University, where she studied with Derrick Puffett. Her research interests include Soviet and Central European music theory in China, the music of Scriabin and Stravinsky, octatonicism, and the music and theoretical writings of Olivier Messiaen. Her scholarly works have been published by Acta Musicologica, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Music Analysis, Music and Letters, Perspectives of New Music, etc. Recent articles include ‘“Miroir Fluide”: Messiaen, Debussy and Cyrano’s “Synaesthetic” Bird’ published by Music and Letters in 2014, and “Reading Schoenberg, Hindemith, and Kurth in Sang Tong: Modernist Harmonic Approaches in China” published by Acta Musicologica in 2016.
Contact : cheongwl@cuhk.edu.hk
Séance - Semiotics and Semantics of Tonality and Harmony 13.H.1 : Harmony as Cultural Hybrid: Rethinking the First Nationwide Music Theory Conference in China (Wuhan, 1979)
