Music from the Tang Court: Volume 7
Some Ancient Connections Explored
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Product details:
- Edition number and title Some Ancient Connections Explored v. 7
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 30 January 2006
- ISBN 9780521543361
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 243x168x17 mm
- Weight 518 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 tables 22 music examples 0
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Short description:
The seventh volume in this study of the music of the Tang Court.
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The series of volumes of Music from the Tang Court considers a repertory of music at least 1400 years old. During the two centuries before 841 the Japanese Court borrowed a large amount of secular entertainment music from China. This 'Tang Music' (Togaku) survives in Japan in a substantial body of manuscripts, but is transformed in character in contemporary performance. This edition transcribes and comments on the music as it survives in its earliest sources. This process has revealed surprising evidence for ancient interconnections in Asian musics, and the essays in this seventh volume present aspects of this research to date. They provide evidence, for example, of music in a scale of four notes only from Bali and from Ancient China, as well as, most significantly, for the transportation from the Tang capital to Japan of 'several tens of scrolls of music in tablature'.
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Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. How the Togaku repertory was acquired by the Japanese; and the processes of 'acculturation' that followed its acquisition Laurence Picken; 2. In search of the music of pre-Nara Japan Laurence Picken, No&&&235;l Nickson and Okamoto Miyoko; 3. 'Old Music', 'New Music', and other classificatory terms in the musical vocabularies of Late Nara and Heian, Japan Laurence Picken; 4. Locational and functional names of notes in modal note-sets across Eurasia Laurence Picken and No&&&235;l Nickson; 5. Modal note-sets and related matters in Ancient China; in Ancient and Modern India and Persia; in Ancient Greece Laurence Picken; 6. The modal system of Togaku as a vestige of 28 mode-keys of the Tang inheritance: different modes with like finals; like modes with different finals Laurence Picken; 7. Parallels in the organization of music in time in Indonesia, Ancient India and Ancient China Laurence Picken, Nicholas Gray and Robert Walker; Envoi; Cumulative bibliography.
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