Music from the Tang Court: Some Ancient Connections Explored - Couverture souple

Picken, Laurence

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521543363 ISBN 13 : 9780521543361

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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'.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521543363
• ISBN 13: 9780521543361
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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