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From the five-year Music Institute of the National Academy of Arts to the Music Department of the National Taiwan University of Arts. The Music Institute of the National Taiwan Academic of Arts was founded in 1957 under the leadership of professor 申學庸 (Shen, Hsueh-Yong). From the beginning of its establishment, music classes were officiated at the artistically decorated corridor in the National Botanic Garden until the department moved back to the current location at Banciao City in 1959. Despite great hardships such as insufficient teaching capacities and inferior learning circumstances at the pioneering stage, the department persisted in its educational mission of cultivating talented junior high school graduates and has succeeded in developing the talents of innumerable professional musicians. From 1964 to 1965 the music department initiated a three-year evening division. In 1970, Traditional Music and Dance were both added as sections in the Music Department Evening Division. The traditional music section became independent and established itself as the Traditional Music Department in 1971; in 1973 the dance section also became a separate Dance Department. In 1987 the student body was augmented from one to two classes, from 30-60 students, under the proposition of Director David Liao. National Taiwan Academy of Arts was renamed National Taiwan University of Arts in 1991. The Music Department consequently began to enroll senior high school students and adopted a four-year music education program gradually. Professional performance training remained its one-on-one, individual instruction pedagogy. Our faculty members include 17 full-time and more than one hundred part-time teachers. The faculty strives toward its educational goal to enrich and fertilize the domestic music education program, and to transform the department into an internationally recognized educational platform. |