Music from the Tang Court: Volume 3

by Laurence Picken (Editor)

Overview

During the two centuries before 841, the Japanese Court borrowed a large amount of secular entertainment music from China, chiefly music of the Sui and Tang Courts. This music, known as 'Tang Music' is preserved in manuscripts written between the eighth and thirteenth centuries and to be seen today in the library of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo and in other Japanese libraries. With Fáscicle 3 the series will begin publication of smaller suites and pieces, together representative of the 'middle-sized pieces' and 'small pieces' (chukyoku and shokyoku) of the threefold classification, in which the daikyoku are the largest suites. O-dai hajin-raku from a reputedly eleventh-century manuscript: Kaicbu-fu, in parallel with the conflation discussed in Fascicle 2, together with single-stave, conflated, justified versions of Toraden and Shunnó-den, and structural analyses of these two suites.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521278386
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/07/1985
Pages:	116
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 11.60(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Glossary; Abbreviations; 1. A Jade Tree's Rear-court blossoms; 2. The palace of Congratulations; 3. The Bird; 4. The eddying bowl; 5. The Emperor Destroys the Formations; 6. On Toraden 'The Whirl-Around' and Shunnō-den 'The Singing of Spring Warblers'.