Music from the Tang Court: Volume 6

by Laurence E. R. Picken (Editor), Noël J. Nickson (Editor)

Overview

This volume brings to an end the transcription and description of thirty-one items from the Court Entertainment Music of the Tang. Of particular interest are a tune for a birthplace-ode by the Taizong Emperor, music for spear throwing, and a piece imitating calls between sexual partners in a flock of geese. Important appendices discuss stylistic differences between music of the Tang and imitative Japanese compositions, Tang compositions with military associations, and relatedness between movements in suites from the Tang.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521044523
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/29/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.63(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Glossary of signs; 25. Suite: 'A New Prince of Luoling'; 26. Piece: '[Western] Liangzhou'; 27. Piece: 'Spear-Play'; 28. Suite: 'Bird(s) of the Qin River'; 29. Piece: 'Introit to 'Perfect Virtue''; 30. Piece: 'Introit to 'Peace-Music''; 31. Piece: 'Ten Devas'; Appendices; Cumulative bibliography.