Musica Asiatica

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Musica Asiatica

ed. by Laurence Picken

Oxford University Press, 1977-

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Volume

1 ISBN 9780193232341

Description

This first volume of studies in the history, musicology, and organology of Asian music includes articles on Trikala in South India, the genesis of carvel-built lutes, the shapes of the Shi Jing song texts, and transcriptions of tunes from a Japanese source of the tenth century and of a ninth-century Sino-Japense lute tutor.
Volume

2 ISBN 9780193232358

Description

This second volume of studies in the historical musicology of Asian music includes a transcription by J. Conduit in mensural notation of a fifteenth-century Korean score, and articles on zither finger techniques in Heian times, early Indian musical inscription, and eighteenth-century Burmese song.
Volume

3 ISBN 9780193232365

Description

This volume contains essays on frequency-doubling chordophones and their relevance to the 'plucked' drums and to the string/table angles in harps; different aspects of word-setting in Burmese and Chinese art-song; mouth-organ and lute parts of Togaku; and the five-stringed lute in East Asia. A complete transcription of a ninth-century score in tablature for five-stringed lute is also included.

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