Briefly the purposes of the Conservatory may be summarized as follows:—
1. To foster interest in good music among the people.
2. To prepare competent leaders in the field of music. introduce good Western music to China, both redation of it and actual participation.
carry on research Chinese music; to evaluate and standardize that: zenuine musie whick has been looked down upon by ths upper classes.
Instructors, Courses, Among the 14 ramular and as: ociate instructors, are such well-known artiste us Mme. Tomsky, Messrs, Foa and Chevetzotf. The greatest of pu-p'a, or Chinese guitar, artists in China, Mr. Eh Ying, who has made suecessfu tour"' in Japan and America, is one of the Chinese musicians of th Dilficulties in Collecting Folk Songs In the course of the collection of folk songs, which he hopes to publish in the near future, Mr. Tu encountered the following difficulties:
1. Such is the difference between Chinese and Western notation that if purely foreign notation is used, much of the Chinese favour will be Since vocal and instrumental Chinese music, the ching or reed organ excepted, are melodic, hai must be '$9 int inoed as to id the loss of the native spi Because the common sing incorrectly, the matter of col dingly dificult, The classes consider it ben iznity to sing these and if they had, while children, learned the songs from servants, they have, by the time they hav grown older, quite forgotten them, 4. In the matter if songs are put into West ation with Chinese words, there in a There are enroll at present 50 uilents, which is the 1 nese. sired, exlucsted und The subject of folk music has the government from $500 to $300 been con because the sin period in the erin, the tuition for a similar "20% National Conserva-he true sulted to study the piano and Chin- their rightful di eve folk songs, as well as modern Possibly. in Chinese composite by Dr. Hsin Yiu-mei and Dr. Yuan Ren-chao of Tsinghua College.
Courres are for the piano, sioling cello, With such ends in view, we wish and western, p'iep'a, or Chinese violin.
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