Open AccessSound and Sense – A Musical Look at Chinese Poetry in 1916
Author(s) -
Zeb Raft
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
transcultural
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1920-0323
DOI - 10.21992/t9v637
Subject(s) - poetry , musical , literature , china , sound (geography) , art , chinese poetry , classical chinese poetry , history , acoustics , archaeology , physics
This essay examines two contributions related to “Chinese poetry” from Eunice Tietjens, an early editor of and contributor to the Chicago-based magazine Poetry. In the first, Tietjens uses western musical notation to transcribe the “tunes” of two Chinese scholars chanting a short poem. The second is a group of Tietjens’s own poetic sketches of the China she witnessed on her 1916 visit. Taken together, these projects provide a useful commentary on the translation of Chinese poetry in the early 20th century.