MUSIC FROM THE TANG COURT by Laurence E. R. Picken, Noel J. Nickson ( 9780521543361 )

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Title:

MUSIC FROM THE TANG COURT
SOME ANCIENT CONNECTIONS EXPLORED

Volume:

Some Ancient Connections Explored

By:

Laurence E. R. Picken, Noel J. Nickson

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Paperback

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0521543363

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9780521543361

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

30 January, 2006

Pages:

328

Description:

The seventh volume in this study of the music of the Tang Court.

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'.

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8 tables 22 music examples

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Cambridge University Press

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