谢绍英:被遗忘的留美音乐先驱

Xie Shaoying:The Forgotten Musician Studied in America

有关近代中国的音乐留学生,学界一般都多将视野集中在20世纪初年负笈日本的沈心工、王鸿年、曹汝锦、曾志忞、萧友梅等人,而对较早赴美国学习音乐的留学生却很少提及。文章以1900年至1910年间两度赴美国专攻音乐的福州女留学生谢绍英为例,考察清末国人在美国学习西洋音乐的经历及其学成归国后的音乐教育活动和中美音乐交流的情况。

The musicians who studied in Japan in the early twentieth century,such as Shen Xinguang,Wang Hongnian,Cao Rujin,Zeng Zhimin and Xiao Youmei have been widely researched,while little has been said a-bout the earlier students who studied music in the United States.Taking Xie Shaoying a female student from Fuzhou who went to the United States twice between 1900 and 1910 to study music-as a case study,this article examines the experiences of the late Qing Dynasty Chinese who studied W estern music in the United States,as well as their musical education activities and musical exchanges between China and the United States after they returned home from their studies.