Zhang Zhentao 
Sound Bay [EPUB ebook] 
Music and Travel

The book includes more than ten essays published by the author in recent years, divided into two categories: travelogues and work experiences. As the deputy head of the Central National Orchestra, the author has traveled abroad with the group many times, recording experiences and observations in European countries, the source of classical music, and stories related to music encountered along the way. The musical works introduced in the book are narrated from the new academic perspective of "auto-ethnography, " focusing on personal experience. The book is written in an academic yet readable style, recording the world through the eyes of a musician. One of the features of the book is the inclusion of a large number of pictures, which are elegant and atmospheric. Each article is accompanied by about ten pictures, with a total of nearly a hundred, making the book visually appealing and attractive to readers.Zhang Zhen-Tao is a doctoral supervisor at the Music Research Institute of the Chinese National Academy of Arts and a distinguished professor at the China Conservatory of Music. He has served as the director of the Music Research Institute of the Chinese National Academy of Arts, deputy head of the Central National Orchestra, and editor-in-chief of "Chinese Musicology." His works include monographs such as "Breaking the Calm-Tradition and Change in the Drum Music of Northern Shanxi" and "Sound Overflows the Mountain Gate-Ethnomusicology of Northern Shaanxi"; collections of papers such as "Seeking Joy in the Wilderness, " "Wind Sounds in the Ear, " and "Burning Strings." He has also edited the "Complete Works of Yang Yinliu" (13 volumes), "Huang Xiangpeng’s Collected Works" (two volumes), "Chinese Musical Instrument Atlas, " and "Chinese Gongchepu Music Score Collection" (10 volumes).