Cantonese opera : performance as creative process
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Cantonese opera : performance as creative process
（Cambridge studies in ethnomusicology）
Cambridge University Press, 1989
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Available at 7 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. 195-201
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780521305068
Description
Cantonese opera is one of the grandest of the traditional musical theatres in China. This book investigates the creative process involved in the performance of these operas, in which as many as fifty or sixty singers/actors/dancers and a dozen or more instrumentalists take part. Based on fieldwork in Hong Kong and upon transcription and analysis of the music from live performances, this book investigates this extraordinary performance, focusing on social function, the script, the language and the individual singer's creative input. Bell Yung suggests a model of creative process that involves a set of rules according to which singers operate, improvise and interact. He also considers other theoretical issues, most importantly the relationship between text and music and the question of the variance or invariance of melodies.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction to Chinese Opera
- 2. Essential elements of Cantonese opera as performing art
- 3. Musical instruments
- 4. Social context
- 5. The opera script
- 6. Speech types
- 7. Aria types
- 8. Linguistic tones
- 9. Padding syllables
- 10. Sin
- 11. Fixed tunes
- 12. Narrative songs
- 13. Three levels of creative process
- Appendices
- Glossary.
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cassette ISBN 9780521356329
Description
This book sets out to examine the creative process involved in the performance of the Cantonese opera, in which as many as 50 or 60 singers/dancers and a dozen or more instrumentalists take part. The book investigates the performance and social function of the art form.
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