Traffic Guide to Wuhan Conservatory of Music: Take Route 717 from Wuchang Railway Station (Qiaomuwan-Dijiaobian) and get off at the Provincial People's Hospital
Wuhan Conservatory of Music is a discipline-based institution in Central and South China. A comprehensive higher music institution with outstanding educational characteristics. It is located on Jiefang Road, the most prosperous area of ??Wuchang, adjacent to the Red Building of the Xinhai Memorial Hall to the east, the Yangtze River to the west, and the Yellow Crane Tower and the Yangtze River Bridge to the north. The courtyard is lined with green trees, the breeze blows on the lake, and music is everywhere.
The college has a long history, and the school is located at the former site of Wuchang Lianghu Academy. Its predecessor can be traced back to Wuchang Art College, founded in 1920. In 1949, the School of Literature and Art of Chung Yuan University was established; in 1951, it was renamed Central South Music College; in 1958, it was renamed Hubei University of the Arts. In 1985, it was named Wuhan Conservatory of Music.
The college enrolled undergraduate students in 1956 and graduate students for master's degrees in 1979. In 1999, it passed the master's degree program in Marxist Theory and Ideological and Political Education, a secondary discipline of law, and officially enrolled students.
Before the adjustment of the subject and major catalog of the college, there were seven master's degree awarding points. After the new subject and major catalog was released, it was adjusted to two master's degree awarding points.
The college currently has 447 on-the-job faculty and staff. Among them, 274 are teachers. Among the teaching staff, there are 22 current professors, 91 associate professors, and 113 ***.
The college currently has 7 departments including composition, musicology, ethnic instrumental music, piano, orchestral music, vocal music, and dance, as well as the School of Music Education, the Graduate Department, the Department of Social Sciences, the School of Adult Education, the Affiliated Middle School, and the Affiliated Primary School. , Music Research Institute, Computer Music Experiment Center and other teaching and research units; in June 2003, it was designated as one of the humanities and social science bases in Hubei Province.
The college currently has 2,863 students, including 148 graduate students, 1,604 undergraduate and junior college students, 577 students in the affiliated middle school, 121 affiliated primary schools, and 413 undergraduate and junior college students in the College of Adult Education.
The college has good teaching and research conditions. After decades of hard work, especially the rapid development during the Ninth Five-Year Plan and the first two years of the Tenth Five-Year Plan, fixed assets have increased significantly. The campus covers an area of ??183.2 acres, with a building area of ??92,000 square meters. The asset value of teaching instruments and equipment is more than 10 million yuan. The library has a collection of more than 230,000 books and more than 50,000 records, audio tapes, and video tapes (boxes). The college has an audio-visual teaching center, a computer music experiment center, a music acoustics laboratory, and a digital recording studio. The college also has a chime concert hall that hangs hundreds of Chu Zeng bells and has first-class acoustics.
The college’s education quality and school-running efficiency are improving day by day. It began to recruit undergraduate students in 1956 and graduate students for master’s degrees in 1979. It has cultivated a large number of music and art talents for the country. Many graduated undergraduate and master's students have become professors and associate professors in music and art schools, first- or second-level artists in literary and art groups, and the backbone of music research institutions and news media.
In the construction of disciplines, the college always revolves around a window (Journal "Huang Zhong"). With its serious thinking, profound theory and high-grade academics, it continues to become one of the eight music-related Chinese schools in the country. One of the core journals, as an academic window of Wuhan Conservatory of Music, it has become one of the source journals of the "Chinese Academic Journals Comprehensive Evaluation Database", and is included in full text by "China Journal Network", "Chinese Academic Journals (CD Version)"), Two fists (Oriental Symphony Orchestra, China Chimes Orchestra), three directions (computer music theory, composition technology theory, ethnic music theory), four key disciplines (four key disciplines of composition, folk music, musicology, and piano), six Centers (Computer Music Experiment Center, Xu Zhong Piano Art Center, Chinese Music Archeology Center, Lin Yaoji Violin Art Center, China Taoist Music Research and Training Center, Music Acoustics Laboratory) work on the layout of the discipline construction, making the discipline construction of the college in Significant progress has been made in terms of quality, distinctiveness, brand creation, and efficiency.
The provincial key musicology discipline of the college is based on the theoretical research of basic music courses, focusing on the marriage of music and science and technology, the combination of tradition and modernity, so that multiple research directions support each other and develop in a coordinated manner; we strive to realize the transfer of scientific research results to teaching Transform and promote the healthy development of discipline construction, making this discipline a leading position not only in Hubei Province but also in similar disciplines nationwide.
In its scientific research work, the college has undertaken and completed a number of key projects at the national, provincial and ministerial levels, such as compiling parts of the "Hubei Volume of Chinese Folk Songs" and the "Music and Dance Volume of the Encyclopedia of China" Entries: the work of finalizing and recording some works of "The Complete Works of Nie Er" and "The Complete Works of Xi Xinghai", 32 audio cassettes of "National Music Appreciation Library for Primary and Secondary School Students" and 2 volumes of "Music Library Appreciation Guide", etc. At present, our college is engaged in the integration of computers with composition and performance, the automatic generation and conversion of multimedia sounds, images, and scores, the development of computer-assisted teaching software for composition technology theory courses, the academic database of composition technology theory, and research on ethnic music culture and religious music. He has published 12 monographs and more than 40 papers in influential academic journals at home and abroad. Among them, the research results of Zeng Houyi’s music and music studies and temperament studies have been praised by domestic and foreign experts as important discoveries and valuable research results. A new breakthrough; in an official letter from Austria's Dean of the School of Music of the University of Vienna, Fidemey clearly stated: These results are a new dawn in the study of ancient Chinese music and will ultimately have a significant impact on the study of world music history. Our institute's research results on Taoist music have had a wide impact not only on the mainland, but also in Hong Kong, Japan and the academic circles of France.
The college also relied on its own academic strength to host two Wuhan International Chime Research Academic Conferences, two National Harmony Academic Symposiums, two National Exchange Conferences on New Works by Middle-aged and Young Composers, and the National Higher Music Conference , academic conferences on sight-singing and ear training, trombone, French horn, and clarinet in art schools. Teachers from the college often attend various international and domestic academic conferences, and the papers they submit and publish receive great attention from participating experts.
The college carries out extensive academic exchange activities at home and abroad, and has established campus cooperation with music and art colleges in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Ukraine, Belarus and other countries. There are constant exchanges, lectures, and performances among each other. Every year, the college sends some teachers and students to study abroad for further study, visiting lectures, and performance competitions.
The college attaches great importance to the artistic practice activities of teachers and students, and has established the Oriental Symphony Orchestra, the China Chime Ensemble, the National Chamber Orchestra, the Choir, the Art Troupe of the High School Affiliated, and the Art Troupe of the Primary School Affiliated. Among them, the China Chime Ensemble and the internationally renowned musician Tan Dun , Yo-Yo Ma, and has performed in the United States, Britain, France, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and other places; the Oriental Symphony Orchestra has performed in Beijing, Shanghai, Anhui, Hunan, Dalian and other places in my country; in 2002, it also undertook the project of the Hubei Provincial People's Government The Chinese New Year Concert, jointly organized with CCTV, was successfully performed at the Century Hall in Frankfurt, Germany, and the Golden Hall in Vienna, Austria. It showcased China's ancient civilization and traditional culture, demonstrated the achievements of Chinese composers in the field of symphonic music creation, and demonstrated The style of China's outstanding young singers and performers has been praised by people from all walks of life.
The college attaches great importance to the ideological and political education of teachers, students and employees, and insists on carrying out basic ethics education focusing on patriotism and law-abiding, courtesy and integrity, unity and friendliness, diligence, thrift and self-reliance, and dedication. Featuring the artistic practice of teachers and students, it carries out a number of campus cultural activities, and often organizes teachers and students to participate in performances in provinces, cities, factories, colleges and universities, communities, and labor education management units. Actively carry out evaluation and commendation activities for civilized departments, divisions and civilized teaching and research sections, promoting the in-depth development of spiritual civilization construction. Since 1999, it has won the honorary title of provincial civilized unit for two consecutive terms.
Address: No. 255 Jiefang Road, Wuchang District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China Postal Code: 430060