Saibara : Japanese court songs of the Heian period

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Saibara : Japanese court songs of the Heian period

Elizabeth J. Markham

Cambridge University Press, 1983

  • v. 1
  • v. 2
  • set

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Note

Vol. 1, text; v. 2, music

Bibliography: v. 1, p. [399]-404

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9780521245838

Description

Saibara ('Drover's Songs') is the title of a genre of measured Japanese court song, traditionally believed to have been derived from the songs of pack-horse drivers bringing tribute from the provinces to the Heian capital and known to have formed part of the official court repertory at least since AD 859. From literature of the Heian period (782-1184) it is evident that these songs enjoyed great popularity at court as entertainment music practised by noble amateurs. Six songs are still performed today, albeit vastly modified. As well as being of value to musicologists, these volumes will interest readers concerned with early Japanese literature and paleography.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Part I. Sources
  • Part II. Instruments, tablatures and transcription of the primary musical sources
  • Part III. A detailed study of a typical Saibara illustrating analytical procedures applied to the entire repertory
  • Part IV. Relationships between Saibara and pieces from the Togaku and Komagaku repertories
  • Part V. Melodies and melody-types
  • Part VI. Transformation of the six Saibara of the modern repertory
  • Bibliography
  • Indexes.
Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9780521245845

Description

Saibara ('Drover's Songs') is the title of a genre of measured Japanese court song, traditionally believed to have been derived from the songs of pack-horse drivers bringing tribute from the provinces to the Heian capital and known to have formed part of the official court repertory at least since AD 859. From literature of the Heian period (782-1184) it is evident that these songs enjoyed great popularity at court as entertainment music practised by noble amateurs. Six songs are still performed today, albeit vastly modified. As well as being of value to musicologists, these volumes will interest readers concerned with early Japanese literature and paleography.

Table of Contents

  • Appendices: 1. Complete transcriptions of the 55 Saibara preserved in tablature for lute and zither in the twelfth century manuscripts, sango-yoroku and jinchi-yoroku
  • 2. Comparison of six Saibara from the twelfth-century textual sources with the musical versions from sango-yoroku and jinchi-yoroku
  • 3. Transcription of togaku- and komagaku-pieces linked with Saibara, but in modes other than hyojo or sojo, from the twelfth-century flute manuscript hakuga no fue-fe and from sango-yoroku and sango-yoryaku
  • 4. Transcription of the Ryo-Saibara, mimasaka from the flute manuscript date 1193
  • 5. Transcription of a fragment of lute-tablature of late Heian or early Kamakura date containing section 5 of the Ritsu-Saibara, takasago
  • 6. Comparative transcriptions of the 20 Saibara in the twelfth century lute-manuscript sango-yoryaku with their primary and alternative lute-versions from sango-yoroku.

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