Departments and Centers

College of Music

Overview

In response to the global trend and the overall transformation plan of National Taiwan Normal University toward excellence of arts and cultural services and an integration of tradition and innovation, the Department of Music (founded in June 1946), Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology (August 2002), Graduate Institute of Performing Arts (August 2005) and the Music Digital Archive Center (September 2004) were reconstructed into the College of Music in August 2007, with new programs including the Digital Video and Audio Program, the Undergraduate Program of Performing Arts, and the Program in Cultural and Creative Industries.

The Department of Music offers bachelor, master and doctoral degrees and is dedicated to the cultivation of skilled performers, creators, researchers and educators. The Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology covers three areas of concentrations (Research and Preservation, Performance and Heritage, and Multimedia Applications) and stresses on music research, dissemination of traditional music and the digital archiving and applications of music. The Graduate Institute of Performing Arts trains professional personnel in theater performance and arts administration and management with the focus on music.

The College offers 4-year undergraduate programs and 2-year graduate programs. Upon graduation, students receive B.A., M.A. or Ph.D. degrees.

Facilities

The College of Music Library has a rich collection of audio-visual data, books and journals, including more than 10,000 valuable volumes donated from foreign professors and music scholars. These resources help satisfy the students’ thirst for knowledge and provide material for teachers.

Teaching and performing spaces provided by the College include classrooms, piano rooms and the recital hall in the Department of Music, classrooms, piano rooms, the Chih-yin Theater in the General Building, and classrooms in the College area. A part of courses also take place at the NTNU Auditorium. The College of Music is in possession of a complete set of instruments for performing and teaching uses, including a number of Steinway pianos, digital pianos, grand pianos, electric pianos, etc.

Our own college journal, the Journal of Music Research, has published 15 issues up to now and is a platform for intercollegiate and international academic exchanges. We have also built the Digital Audio-visual Classroom and the Music Digital Archive Center as a part of our development of a multidimensional, multi-faceted competence in the field of music.

Academic Activities

Over the years, the College of Music has been:

Organizing international conferences in order to promote academic exchanges;
Inviting world-renowned experts to conduct seminars and lectures.
Publishing theJournal of Music Research, our own academic journal.
Hosting the annual NTNU Music Festival.
College of Music
ADD：No.31,Shida Rd., Taipei city 10645, Taiwan ( R.O.C.)
E-mail：musicntnu@deps.ntnu.edu.tw
TEL： 886-2-7749-3000
FAX ： 886-2- 2364-7057

Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology

Overview

Founded in August 2002, the Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology covers three areas of concentration: Research and Preservation, Performance and Heritage, and Multimedia Applications, which was initiated in 2006 with the aim of improving students’ information skills and competence and bringing the traditional values together with the modern information society. We are dedicated to in-depth research on Taiwan’s traditional music culture, its performance and education and its preservation. In recent years, we have diversified our studies to include the neighboring Austronesian cultures and digital archiving. The institute’s mission is to train skilled personnel in academic research, performance, teaching and applications of ethnic music, as well as explore creative possibilities for the preservation, research, innovation, promotion and dissemination of Taiwan’s traditional music.

Curriculum

Interdisciplinary studies are a hallmark of the Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology. Students in each area of concentration are required to take a minimum of 10 credits for required courses and 24 elective credits.

Required Common Courses
Research Methodology		Introduction to Music Philosophy
Required Area-specific Courses
Performance and Heritage	Research and Preservation		Multimedia Applications
Major (Pipa or Erhu)	Introduction to Ethnomusicology		Foundations of Computer-Generated Sound and Multimedia Application
Music Analysis	Study of the Comparison between Chinese and Western Music		Theory and Practice in Musical Multi-media
	Mode of Traditional Music		History of Sound Recording

Elective Courses
Ensemble and Choir	Ensemble of Nankuan & Peikuan Music	Special Topics on Bow Instrument
Ensemble and Choir	Special Topics on Pluck Instruments.	Studies in Contemporary Si-zhu Ensemble
Music History and Literature	Special Topics in Chinese Ancient Music	Ritual and Theatre
	Study of Taiwan Modern Music	Studies in Nankuan Music
	Musical Documents Arrangement	Studies in Peikuan Music
	Source Readings in Music History	Traditional Music and Society
	Taiwanese Opera and Traditional Culture	Popular Music
Music Ontology	The Study on Taiwan Indigenous People’s Music.	Practice on Nankuan Vocal Music
	Comparative Study of Cultural Zone on Austronesian Music	Music Notation
	Seminar in Taiwan Contemporary Music	Studies in Aesthetics of Music
	Musical Field Work	Chinese Drum Pattern
	Seminar on Tonal System	Seminar on Asia-Pacific Contemporary Music.
	Study on Taoism Ritual and Music	Theory and Practice in Musical Communication
	Studies in Instrumental Music of Nankuan and Peikuan	Seminar in Notation
Music and Multimedia	Physical Interaction Design for Music and Multimedia	Special Topics on Music Digital Archives
	Special Topics on Recording Production	Advanced Film Music Scoring
	Special Topics on Multimedia Production	Final Project
	Seminar in Analysis, Performance, and Recording (in English)

Facilities

The Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology offers independent teaching space for each area of concentration while also sharing facilities and resources with other departments and graduate institutes in the College of Music, including the recital hall, the music library, the piano rooms, the multi-functioned classrooms, and the theater.

In September 2004, the Department of Music and our institute co-founded the first institution dedicated to digital music archiving among Taiwan’s music colleges, the Music Digital Archive Center, which has since joined the lineup of teaching and practice facilities of the College of Music and contributed to the improvement in the quality of academic outputs.

Contact Us

Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology, National Taiwan Normal University
Mailing Address: 2F, No. 31, Shida Rd., Daan Dist., Taipei City 10645, Taiwan

TEL: 7749-5446

FAX: 2364-0575

Bachelor Degree Program of Performing Arts

I. Purpose

In December 2009, the government passed the first reading of the “Cultural and Creative Industry Development Act (draft)”. The act will be listed as a national priority policy project, in which “performance art” will be a key project.

Undergraduate Program of Performing Arts continues the missions of the Graduate Institute of Performing Arts─ not only dedicating to teaching and studying of professional knowledge, but also maintaining a good, close relationship with other industries. Therefore, this course of study aims to effectively integrate arts, business, production sectors, and academic resources with high-quality professional teachers. The integration with the profound humane arts and aesthetics of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) will cultivate students’ ability of innovative thinking and the skills of implementation. It will become the core of Taiwan’s performing arts education, fostering Taiwan’s performing arts, creative industry-related professionals, and excellent teachers.

II. Main Features

The Programm integrates teachers from relevant apartments at NTNU to design professional and cross-practice courses of performing arts. With the creative and professional teaching, there will be an integration of science and technology, humanities, arts, management at NTNU. This will show the best benefit of performing arts in the relevant fields and industries.

The Programm is the first-established program in Taiwan which provides students with both teaching ability and degree of “performance arts” after graduation. Since it is difficult to get a teaching position now, having this degree will be a great advantage in job market.

III. Goal

(i) To enhance competitiveness
(ii) To integrate multi-professionals
(iii) To construct the platform for arts and science
(iv) To promote the industry-academic cooperation

IV. Course Features

1. This program puts emphasis on both theory and practice.

2. All the teachers have outstanding achievements as professionals of industry or of academics.

3. The Programm provides students with internships along with various types of activities at school. With the integration of school teaching and administrative resources, students will have abundant opportunity for practical learning.

V. Future Prospects

(i) Focusing on the development of musical theater, performing arts and performing marketing cooperation fields of the performing arts

(ii) Complying with the national development policies

(iii) Establishing the international platform for the industry, government and academia, and science

(IV) Establishing a word-class level “Teaching Center of Performing Arts”

Contact Us
Graduate Institute of Performing Arts, National Taiwan Normal University
Mailing Address: 162, HePing East Road, Section 1, Taipei,Taiwan (10610)
TEL: 7749-5485 or 5487
FAX: 886-2-3393-6131

Graduate Institute of Performing Arts

Overview

The core values of the Graduate Institute of Performing Arts (GIPA):

G = Generative

I = Ideal

P = Passionate

A = Active

Founded in 2005, the Graduate Institute of Performing Arts cultivates professionals in on-stage and backstage as well as management and marketing aspects of Taiwan’s performing arts. GIPA’s goal is to catapult Taiwan’s performing arts onto the world stage through contributions to the education, research and industrial development of performing arts.

The primary missions of GIPA are:

Cultivation of Professionals in Performing Arts

Integrating the characteristics of Eastern and Western arts and combine theory and practice, GIPA’s programs train professionals and talents in every aspect, on-stage and backstage, of performing arts and music theater.

Cultivation of Professional Arts Administrators

GIPA’s programs prepare professionals in the industrialization and management of components in the performing arts industry chain, including planning, marketing, finance, law and technology.

Establishment of Cross-sector Platform for Cultural and Creative Industries

Consistent with the government’s policy of promoting cultural and creative industries, GIPA assists in the integration of personnel and resources in Taiwan’s arts and culture industry, academic institutions, government departments and research institutes, with the aim of establishing a cross-sector collaboration platform.

Curriculum

With the core competence in the field of music theater, GIPA offers three areas of concentration (majors):

Theater Performance:Designed to help students obtain performing arts–related skills through practical trainings including theater design and production with regard to all aspects of the performance theater.
Collaborative Piano:Designed to prepare students to collaborate with the production and rehearsals of theater performances as pianists.
Arts Marketing and Industries:Offers theoretical and practical training courses for planning, marketing and media strategy related to performing arts/music theater. Also deals with policy, law and management issues surrounding the development of cultural and creative industries.

Program in Cultural and Creative Industries

The Program in Cultural and Creative Industries provides training in interdisciplinary integration and application skills that are necessary in the industries for students seeking to develop new skills in the field of art.

Undergraduate Program in Performing Arts

Founded in 2009, the Undergraduate Program in Performing Arts is a double major program for students of other departments in NTNU. Combining theory and practice, the program aims at helping students acquire qualifications for performing arts teachers. Courses include acting, vocal training, theater designing, arts management and more.

Facilities

In General Building, 9F:

Performing Arts Center:For large-class lectures and recitals. Equipped with Steinway grand piano and a digital lectern.
Digital Classrooms:For small-class lectures and conferences. Equipped with projectors and video playback equipment.
Student Research Rooms:For extracurricular practices, discussions and other activities. Equipped with computers, digital pianos and lockers.
Institute Office:For administration and provision of equipment for teaching and other activities.

In General Building, 10F:

Faculty Offices:For full-time faculty members. Equipped with computers, printers, etc.
Chih-yin Theater:Professional performance venue with lighting and sound equipment, modular seating and stage, blue screen, Yamaha grand piano, Steinway grand piano and ballet barres.

In the College of Music:

Classroom 101:Faculty offices, equipped with grand pianos for practice or individual teaching.
Music Graduate Institute Room VI:For small-class lectures, technical instructions and rehearsals, with mirror wall, wooden floor, Kawai grand piano, electric piano, projector and video playback.

Alternative Classrooms:

GIPA shares facilities including the Steinway piano classrooms, the e-classrooms, the music library and the recording studio with the Department of Fine Arts, the Department of Music and the Information Technology Center.

Digital Archive Center for Music

Overview

Founded in September 2004 and appointed as a college-level institution in October 2010, the Digital Archive Center for Music (DACM) is the first digital music archive in music colleges in Taiwan. At the time of establishment, DACM’s primary mission was to assist departments and graduate institutes of the College of Music in the recording of important activities and the digitalization of historical archives. Since 2005, however, we have started to partake in a number of National Science and Technology for e-Learning and Digital Archives Programs, and we are now actively participating in national and international conferences and workshops to promote academic exchanges. We have advanced professional audio-video recording equipment and post-production editing system, multi-camera field production system for live-concert filming, multimedia server with shared storage and independent server rooms. Personnel-wise, we recruit graduate assistants from the College of Music who possess digital music archiving skills. Over the years since its establishment, DACM has taken parts in large-scale digital archive programs, trained experts, established partner networks and hosted international exchange activities; it has built professional server rooms and purchased advanced audio-visual archiving equipment with subsidies from the university. Up to now, the NTNU College of Music has created an all-around work environment for digital music archiving.

Research Sections

Research and Development Section

Main duties:

Plan research projects; apply for and implement digital archive projects.
Construct and maintain the DACM digital archive.
Host forums, seminars, workshops and conferences.
Publish project results on international associations of music archives and promote international academic exchanges and collaborations.

Multimedia Section

Main duties:

Undertake audio-visual recording and archiving for concerts and other activities hosted by the departments and graduate institutes in the College of Music.
Undertake and implement audio- and video-related activities commissioned by internal and external organizations.
Supervise DACM’s facilities for professional digital archiving and multimedia applications.
Promote value-added innovations and applications of the archive.

Facilities

Powered by experts in multiple fields including information technology, system management, web engineering, visual art, library and information and music application, the Digital Archive Center for Music Back Office Management System is an information platform which incorporates high-end hardware and database-driven management interface. The server room was built in November 2006, where servers housed in three 42U Standard Racks operate in air-conditioned environment of constant temperature and humidity, with backup power supply from two online UPSs.

The front office system includes a service platform operated and backed up by five servers and, most importantly, the Digital Archive Search Service. When the Search Service is used, information is transferred between the front office and the database through a middle-office relay platform. We adopt the latest high-end network-attached storage system for our meta-database, supported with backup tape autoloaders and a highly scalable modular disk storage array that can consolidate up to 45 SAS and SATA disk drives. An additional backup system and an editing workstation located in a remote server room on the NTNU Main Campus are connected to the Digital Archive System server room using the university’s fiber-optical network, which is further connected through the Taiwan Academic Network (TANet) to the worldwide web.

Digital Archive Center for Music

Address: 2F., No. 31, Shida Rd., Da’an Dist., Taipei City

TEL: 02-77495449

E-mail: dacm@deps.ntnu.edu.tw

Website: http://dacm.ntnu.edu.tw

ASIS POP NTNU

Vision

The Digital Technology Research Center of Asian Popular Music at the National Taiwan Normal University is positioned as a college-level center. The vision of the research center is to operate behind the mindset of the cultural and creative industries as its guideline principle, searching for most competitive cultural sectors in Taiwan in order to lay a solid foundation for Taiwanese pop music culture and provide assistance to average people joining the industry. The core mission is to support, pass down and expand Taiwanese pop music in other Asian markets; more importantly, the innovative music production and music performance would be our “soft power” to advance. With the combination of outstanding training in classical music from NTNU Department of Music and pop music market analysis education, we can conduct academic research, cultivate talent, collaborate between academia and industry, exercise performance promotion, conduct marketing, engage in cultural creativity, promote international cooperation and energize the Taiwanese pop music market by adding a talent pool system and academic mechanism. In order to popularize Chinese music and laying a solid foundation for Taiwanese pop music, the popularization of Taiwanese pop music and economic power of music culture will be very important factors. In addition, we must integrate interdisciplinary tasks and assist other departments with related matters. Moreover, integrating interdisciplinary tasks of NTNU and international trends in academic is in line with the future development goal of our Department of Music.

Mission

　　(A) Core Missions

　　　　I. Support and pass down Taiwanese pop music

　　　　II. Establish a talent pool of pop musicians and academic mechanism

　　　　III. Conduct Chinese music globalization layout framework

　　　　IV. Conduct scientific research and collaboration between academia and industry

　　　　V. Integrate cross-department and graduate programs and provide assistance with the related tasks

(B) Other Missions

　　　　I. Academic research and market analysis on pop music

　　　　II. Creation research and talent cultivation on pop music

　　　　III. Prepare and held global creative and cultural industry exhibitions

　　　　IV. Promote cooperation between media and related industries

　　　　V. Conduct soundtrack research and practice in broadcast, television and film industries

　　　　VI. Handle Ministry of Culture or other government-related organization projects

　　　　VII. Plan various cultural and creative music marketing activities

　　　　VIII. Provide pop music-related cloud service and preserve pop music-related digital collection

　　　　IX. Apply big data technology to analyze pop music sectors

Center Attribute and Major Duties

　　(A) Center Attribute

　　Center Attribute Research Service Promotion

　　 50％ 25％ 25％

　　(B) Center Specific tasks

　　　　I. Research Tasks

Promote Pop Music Interdisciplinary Development Projects. The seminars will be held regularly in order to gather local and international music-related professors or music-related professionals in the industry to hold lectures.

Call for academic papers. Submitted papers will be published for the international conference after a thorough review.
Promote academic exchange, establish cooperation framework, seek further global academic cooperation, regularly participate in annual international conferences and share research results
Apply big data technology to analyze the Taiwanese pop music industry, future trends and provide analysis of certain successful case studies

　　　　II. Services

Conduct pop music performance tasks for cultural and creative industries. Collaborate with local pop music musicians and groups in Taiwan to arrange concert tours
Conduct tasks in accordance with Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development of the Ministry of Culture; cultivate talents for pop music industry, plan pop music industry exchange policy and handle Ministry of Culture or other government organization related projects
Continue the two-term course of Pop Music and Media Communication; handle summer and winter music workshops and hire professional instructors to teach students who are interested in learning pop music knowledge through general education activity courses.

　　　　III. Promotional Tasks

Promote collaboration between media other related industries; integrate live audio-visual space in order to establish an instant live recording platform and promote student music bands
Plan various creative music cultural activities, such as the World University Concert. Through the student band competitions nationwide, selected local student bands will perform on global stages with other international student bands.

Development and Planning

　　(A)Short-term Planning (Next Three Years)

　　　　I. Promote Pop Music Interdisciplinary Development Projects

PMIDP seminars will be held regularly. The purpose of holding the seminars is to invite local and international music-related professors or music-related professionals in the industry to hold lectures and discuss prospective and developmental possibilities of international popular music in order to expand our reach and international visibility.

　　　　II. Continue to devote time and effort in Taiwanese pop music industry and collaborate with professionals in the industry

　　　　　Through the enrollment of NTNU Application for the Contemporary Music Industry In-Service Master’s Program, we partner up with the industry professionals to teach at our school, establish a cross-domain cooperation exchange platform between local governments and schools for Taiwanese pop music industry; moreover, integrate academia and industry collaboration resources in order to meet the needs for the industry in a timely manner. Through resource integration and close cooperation with the industry in response to government policy development and implementation, our synergistic effect, academia and industry collaboration performance as well as research status will all be greatly enhanced.

　　　　III. Hold World University Concerts

　　　　　Through seminars and concerts, we would bring the achievements of Taiwanese pop music internationally. We would also establish a system which serves as a communication channel to cultural arts worldwide. The system will be constantly updated with latest news.

　　　　IV. Apply big data technology to analyze pop music industry

　　　　　Apply big data technology to analyze the Taiwanese pop music industry and future trends; and provide analysis of certain successful case studies

　　(B) Medium-Term Planning (Next Five Years)

　　　　I. Expand the scale of PMIDP projects.

Organize global conference tours. Collaborate with Department of Music at various universities in China, Japan, USA, Indonesia, Thailand and other nations; and hold PMIDP seminars worldwide. We will learn how other countries plan their pop music development and bring the findings back to Taiwan as a foundation for our own development. 　　　　

Implement live audio-visual platform and promote campus folk songs

Promote collaboration between media and other related industries, integrate live audio-visual space in order to establish an instant live recording platform. Produce music-related shows for college and university student bands. Find the development trend between pop music and independent music. Record and promote the voice of youth to all the people in Taiwan, such as campus folk songs played in the 1960s in ROC. We anticipate to bring back nostalgia and reinvigorate the current pop music industry situation.

III. Establish professional workshop platform

Accept industry-university cooperative research projects and cases entrusted by competent authorities. Based on the expertise of NTNU professors, we will be able to focus on operation management, strategy analysis, talent cultivation and development, information systems management, platform establishment, marketing and other fields. Combined with the contribution of scholars and professors from NTNU College of Humanities, Education, Arts and other related colleges and departments, we can provide the research fuels needed for the sustainable education and business innovation for both academia and industry.

　　(C) Long-term Planning (Next Decade)

　　　　I. Conduct PMIDP projects in order to become global pop music indicator status

　　　　II. Publish world-renowned academic journals, which will be included in SSCI.

　　　　III. Gain credibility and recognition in global practical pop music digital technology research and academia-industry development

　　　　IV. Implement pop music big data technology network

　　　　V. Become an important think tank for global industry development, education and training related policies

ASIS POP NTNU

Address: No. 31, Shida Rd., Daan District, Taipei City 10645

TEL：886-2-7749-1043
FAX：886-2-2364-7057

Website：https://apc.ntnu.edu.tw/