Music from the Tang Court
Volume 5
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- Editors:
- Laurence Picken
- Noël J. Nickson
- Date Published: June 1990
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521347761
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From the oldest surviving Japanese manuscripts in tablature (ninth- fourteenth-centuries) the book provides transcripts into staff-notation of (largely) entertainment-music, played at banquets at the Chinese Court in the Tang period, borrowed by the Japanese not later than 841. The music has never been transcribed before and has not been heard for 800 years or more, so drastically has it been transformed in Japanese performance. The history of each piece of music, as given in Chinese and Japanese historical sources, is investigated. The music itself is subjected to formal analysis, revealing its structure, its modal dynamics, and the methods of composition. For much of the music, ballet-scores survive from the mid-thirteenth century, and it is hoped that these may be associated fascicles with the music as transcribed in future fascicles. Fascicle 5 offers one immense suite, the origins of which lie in sixth-century China: 'The King of the Grave-Mound' (Ryo-o), together with single-stave versions and analyses of upwards of twenty items from previous fascicles and a summary essay restating views on the nature of 'Tang Music' (Togaku).
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- Date Published: June 1990
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521347761
- length: 148 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 8 mm
- weight: 0.23kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Glossary of Signs
Introduction
Foreword to the First Kuchean Mode: Sadharita A Sada-cho bongen preserved in COGRTYF 24 Piece (at times regarded as a Suite): 'The King of Lanling'
Appendixes
Cumulative bibliography.
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