Listening Beyond the Sound: An Interdisciplinary Study on the Performance of Music Art

This book is based on the theme of the interdisciplinary performance of musical art. Through the study of its contextual background, original spirit, performance form and aesthetic theory, this book aims to understand the special artistic essence and cultural meanings of the interdisciplinary performance of musical art, as well as to analyze its cooperation with others, including drama, dance, multi-media and traditional Chinese opera. In additions, talks with the local musicians and artists are the original literatures this book offers that would reflect the actual applications and developing phenomena of the interdisciplinary performance of musical art.
While interdisciplinary study of music has become a new tendency, the academic researches of such filed are still limited. That is the strong motive of this book: to provide an academic reference in order to deepen the meaning of musical art, to solid the base for the multi-development, and finally, to lead the way for the unlimited new artistic pattern and aesthetic potential of the performing art.