Musica Asiatica

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Musica Asiatica

ed. by Laurence Picken

Cambridge University Press, 1984-1991

  • 4
  • 4 : pbk
  • 5
  • 5 : pbk
  • 6
  • 6 : pbk

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Editor: 5. Richard Widdess

Editor: 6. Allan Marett

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

6 : pbk ISBN 9780521072182

Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • 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.
Volume

5 : pbk ISBN 9780521116619

Description

This is the fifth volume in a series of books devoted to the history, documentation and analysis of music in Asia. The five essays each have a different focus ranging from historical change in the Turkish classical repertoire, speech-tones and vocal melody in Thai court song, ritual theatre music in ancient India, pieces for biwa in calendrically correct tunings and an investigation of the sources for Japanese flute scores from the fourteenth century.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Aspects of historical change in the Turkish classical repertoire O. Wright
  • 2. The relationship between speech-tones and vocal melody in Thai court song Y. Tanese-Ito
  • 3. Form in the ritual theatre music of ancient India L. Rowell
  • 4. Pieces for biwa in calendrically correct tunings from a manuscript in the Heian Museum, Kyoto E. J. Markahm, L. E. R. Picken and R. F. Wolpert
  • 5. An investigation of sources for Chu Oga ryuteki yoroku-fu, a Japanese flute score of the fourteenth century A. J. Marett.
Volume

4 : pbk ISBN 9780521278379

Description

In this fourth volume of studies in the historical musicology and organology of Asia, Jonathan Condit completes his survey of Korean scores in mensural notation, and Roger Blench examines the morphology and distribution of sub-Saharan musical instruments of North African, Middle Eastern, and Asian origin.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Korean scores in the modified fifteenth-century mensural notation J. Condit
  • 2. The making of a khaen: the free-reed mouth-organ of North East Thailand L. E. R. Picken, C. J. Adkins and T. F. Page
  • 3. The morphology and distribution of sub-Saharan musical instruments of North-African, Middle-Eastern, and Asian, origin R. Blench
  • 4. Anatolian drum and shawm come to a Greek-Smuggler's village M. Forescue and L. E. R. Picken
  • 5. Music for a lion-dance of the song Dynasty L. E. R. Picken.
Volume

5 ISBN 9780521340717

Description

This is the fifth volume in a series of books devoted to the history, documentation and analysis of music in Asia. The five essays each have a different focus ranging from historical change in the Turkish classical repertoire, speech-tones and vocal melody in Thai court song, ritual theatre music in ancient India, pieces for biwa in calendrically correct tunings and an investigation of the sources for Japanese flute scores from the fourteenth century.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Aspects of historical change in the Turkish classical repertoire O. Wright
  • 2. The relationship between speech-tones and vocal melody in Thai court song Y. Tanese-Ito
  • 3. Form in the ritual theatre music of ancient India L. Rowell
  • 4. Pieces for biwa in calendrically correct tunings from a manuscript in the Heian Museum, Kyoto E. J. Markahm, L. E. R. Picken and R. F. Wolpert
  • 5. An investigation of sources for Chu Oga ryuteki yoroku-fu, a Japanese flute score of the fourteenth century A. J. Marett.
Volume

6 ISBN 9780521390507

Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • 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.

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