Editing Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (section)

== Music ==
Amiot could play the [[harpsichord]] and the [[flute]]. He tried to win over Chinese listeners by playing pieces by French baroque composers, including [[Jean-Philippe Rameau|Rameau]]'s ''Les sauvages'' and ''Les cyclopes''. These attempts, however, were not successful;{{sfn|Irvine|2020|pp=38–39}} when he asked the Chinese musicians for their opinions, they remarked that "your music was not made for our ears, nor our ears for your music".{{sfn|Lindorff|2004|p=411}} Lester Hu, assistant professor of musicology at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] has doubted the veracity of this story.{{sfn|Hu|2021}}

Amiot sent his translation of [[Li Guangdi]]'s ''Guyue Jingzhuan'' ({{lang|zh|古樂經傳}}), a treatise on Chinese music, to Paris in 1754;{{sfn|Irvine|2020|p=33}} he later acknowledged that it contained errors and was incomplete.{{sfn|Davin|1961|p=389}} Jean-Philippe Rameau referenced the work in his 1760 treatise, {{lang|fr|Code de musique pratique}}, though Rameau's idea of harmony in Chinese music was erroneous.{{sfn|Irvine|2020|pp=33–34}} Amiot's own work on Chinese music, {{lang|fr|Mémoire sur la musique des Chinois}} was published twice by [[Pierre-Joseph Roussier]] in 1779 and 1780.{{sfn|Hermans|2019|p=258}} The author's supplements to the work were not published until 1997.{{sfn|Hermans|2019|p=259}} He also sent collections of Chinese music and instruments to France.{{sfn|Hermans|2019|p=260}} In 1777, he sent a [[Sheng (instrument)|Sheng]], thus contributing to the development of the [[harmonica]] in Europe.{{sfn|Chen|Deng|Dong|Liu|2022|p=237}}