Musica Asiatica: Volume 6

The sixth volume of Musica Asiatica is a collection of essays on the music of East Asia.

Allan Marett (Edited by)

9780521072182, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 14 August 2008

148 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1 cm, 0.24 kg

This is the sixth volume in a series of books devoted to the history, documentation and analysis of music in Asia. Four essays are dedicated to documents from the past: fifth-century Korean tomb paintings; tenth-century Chinese scores for lute; eighth-century Japanese documents; early Chinese sutras on the perception of sound. The remainder concern contemporary documents: the notations of the Japanese end-blown flute (shakuhachi) and lute (biwa) and their relationship to performance; acoustical analysis of contemporary shakuhachi. The focus on musical documents, whether ancient or modern, provides a unifying thread which renders this volume unique in the ethnomusicological literature on East Asian music.

Preface
Koguryo instruments in Tomb No.1 at Ch'ang-ch'uan, Manchuria Song Bang-Song
Shakuhachi honkyoku notation: written sources in an oral tradition Riley Lee
Single sound: basic structure of the music of the Japanese flute shakuhachi Andreas Gutzwiller and Gerald Bennett
A report on Chinese research into the Dunhuang music manuscripts Chen Yingshi
Translation Coralie Rockwell
Where did Toragaku come from? David Waterhouse
Musico-religious implications of some Buddhist views of sound and music in the Surangama Sutra Gregg W. Howard
Composition and improvisation in Satsuma biwa Hugh De Ferranti
Glossary of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean terms.

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