Music from the Tang Court: Volume 6

This volume brings to an end the transcription and description of thirty-one items from the Court Entertainment Music of the Tang.

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

9780521044523, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 29 November 2007

308 pages
24.4 x 17 x 1.6 cm, 0.508 kg

This volume brings to an end the transcription and historical description of items from the Court Entertainment Music of the Tang found in two collections of zither and lute scores from the end of the twelfth century. They are from two mode-key groups: twenty-three in the mode-key Ichikotsu-cho and eight in Sada-cho. Of particular interest is a tune that fits a birthplace-ode by the Taizong Emperor, composed in 632, and also music for a collective spear-throwing exercise and a piece perhaps imitating calls between sexual partners in a flock of geese. Important appendices discuss stylistic differences between music of the Tang and imitative Japanese compositions; relationships between Tang compositions with noble and military associations; and evidence of inter-relatedness between movements in suites from the Tang.

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.

Subject Areas: Non-Western music: traditional & "classical" [AVGE]