REL 101 Class notes, Week 4, Lecture 3

Confucius' Orchestral Vision

  1. Equality - Each person's role is essential (Role-based)
  2. Hierarchy - Hiearachy of Virtuosity (Virtue)
  3. Tradition-based: Pre-determined script (Sage Kings)
  4. Interpreter of tradition in the present: Conductor (Emperor - Son of Heaven)
  5. Sagely Advisor - Concertmaster (Confucius)
  6. Sacred Meaning - Religious music (Ritual use of music)

Comparisons

  1. Mozart's Requiem Mass
  2. Miles Davis Jazz Improvisation in A Kind of Blue