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Faculty of Music

 
 Xi  Zhang

Roles

PhD Student

Biography

Xi’s interdisciplinary research involves Music Perception and Cognition, Ethnomusicology, and Linguistics. Her doctoral study explores the relationship between language and music, focusing on the shared property of pitch in speech and singing in tone languages.

Xi read Music Education for her BA and studied Psychology of Music for her MA at Xinghai Conservatory of Music in China. She also holds an MMus in Ethnomusicology from SOAS, University of London. She joined the Centre for Music and Science in 2017.

Xi’s quest to understand the interaction between music and human behaviour and cognition in cultural contexts has led to publications in both English and Chinese.

Publications

Key publications: 

 

Refereed Journal Papers

Zhang X. (accepted). Tones Shape Notes: The Realisation of Lexical Tones in Chaozhou Songs.  Psychology of Music.

Zhang X. Cross I. (accepted, pending revisions). Singers’ Realizations of Linguistic Tone in Chaozhou Song. Ethnomusicology.

Zhang X. Cross I. (2021). Analysing the relationship between tone and melody in Chaozhou songs, Journal of New Music Research, 50:4, 299-311, DOI:10.1080/09298215.2021.1974490

Zhang X. (2014). Re-categorisation of Chaozhou Music. Journal of Xinghai Conservatory of Music, 2014:4, 42-49. (In Chinese)

Zhang X. (2014). Who Am I?: Chaozhou She-song King Lei Chu-Liang’s Musical Behaviours and Self-concept. Music Communication, 2014:3, 17-24. (In Chinese)

Zhang X. (2014). Analysing and Interpreting of Performers’ Attitude-Behaviour Relation in the Musical Folk Activity of You Shen Sai Hui in Chaozhou. Musicology in China, 2014:1, 99-106. (In Chinese)

Zhang X. (2013). Chaozhou Music or Chaoshan Music: Exploring the Historical Changes of the Domain Name and Distribution of the Music. Journal of Xinghai Conservatory of Music, 2013:4, 33-42. (In Chinese)

Zhang X. (2009). The Audience’s Attitude Towards Chao Zhou Da Luo Gu in Folk Activities: A Survey in Yixi Town of Chaozhou City. Journal of Xinghai Conservatory of Music, 2009(4): 58-70. (In Chinese)

Book

Zhang X. (2017). The Social Psychology of Lingnan Chaozhou Music. Fuzhou: Fujian Education Press. (In Chinese)

Book Chapters

Zhang X. (2011). An Empirical Approach to the Corpus of Music in the Rehabilitation for the Elderly, In Luo Xiao Ping & Yu Jin (Ed.) Music and Psyche: The Concise Textbook of Psychogeromusicology for the Elderly (pp. 124-144). Beijing: Chinese Traditional Medicine Press. (In Chinese)

Zhang X. (2008). “The Investigation of Musical Behaviour in God Parade Ceremonies on 6th of Lunar January of Chinese New Year in Chaozhou City”, In Collections of Fieldwork and Research of Lingnan Music, Zhou Kai Mo ed. 2008:172-200. Xinghai Conservatory of Music. (In Chinese)

Conference Papers

Zhang X. Cross I. (2023). Effect of Melodic Context on the Realisation of Tones in Chaozhou Songs. ICMPC17-APSCOM7, Tokyo, Japan.

Zhang X. (2022). Tones Shape Notes: The Realisation of Lexical Tones in Chaozhou Songs. Sempre 50th Anniversary Conference. London, UK.

Zhang X. Cross I. (2021). Effect of Tone Sandhi on Singing in Chaozhou Dialect. Annual Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium. Cambridge, UK.

Zhang X. (2021). The Relationship between Tones and Songs in Chaozhou. SEMPRE conference: Engaging and Interacting with Education, Music and Psychology Research. Keele, UK.

Zhang X. Cross I. (2021). Tone – Melody Matching in Chaozhou Songs: A Corpus Analysis. Cambridge Language Sciences Symposium for Early-Career Researchers. Cambridge, UK.

Zhang X. Cross I. (2021). The Realisation of Linguistic Tones in Singing in Chaozhou: An Observational Study. The Sixth International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music, 2021. Paris, France.

Zhang X. (2017). Speech Tones, Melody Contours and Musical Patterns: The Relationship Between Chaozhou Dialect and Chaozhou Songs. 44th ICTM Conference, Limerick, Ireland.

Zhou K.M., Wu D., Zhang X., Jiang X., (2013). Mixed Methods in Studies of Lingnan Music. 3rd National Conference of Higher Education Institutions on Regional Music Culture Research, November 2013, Guangzhou, China (In Chinese)

Zhang X. (2013). Chaozhou Music or Chaoshan Music: An Historical Explanation from the Change of the Domain Name and Distribution of Music. 3rd National Conference of Higher Education Institutions on Regional Music Culture Research, November 2013, Guangzhou, China (In Chinese)

Zhang X. (2011). Music in Rehabilitation for the Elderly: A Clinical Experiment. 4th Academic Conference of the Society for Music Psychology in China, July 2011, Beijing, China (In Chinese)

Zhang X. (2010). Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Ethnomusicology and Psychology of Music on Audiences’ Attitudes Towards Chao Zhou Da Luo Gu in Folk Activity, The Symposium of Cognitive Psychology of Music and Research Methods, November 2010, Beijing, China (In Chinese)

Zhang X. (2008). Audiences’ Attitude Towards Chao Zhou Da Luo Gu in Folk Activity of Yixi Town in Chaozhou, 3rd Academic Conference of the Society for Music Psychology in China, November 2008, Shanghai, China (In Chinese)