Saibara
Japanese Court Songs of the Heian Period

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Appendices:
1. Complete transcriptions of the 55 Saibara preserved in tablature for lute and zither in the twelfth century manuscripts, sango-yoroku and jinchi-yoroku
2. Comparison of six Saibara from the twelfth-century textual sources with the musical versions from sango-yoroku and jinchi-yoroku
3. Transcription of togaku- and komagaku-pieces linked with Saibara, but in modes other than hyojo or sojo, from the twelfth-century flute manuscript hakuga no fue-fe and from sango-yoroku and sango-yoryaku
4. Transcription of the Ryo-Saibara, mimasaka from the flute manuscript date 1193
5. Transcription of a fragment of lute-tablature of late Heian or early Kamakura date containing section 5 of the Ritsu-Saibara, takasago
6. Comparative transcriptions of the 20 Saibara in the twelfth century lute-manuscript sango-yoryaku with their primary and alternative lute-versions from sango-yoroku.

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