Music from the Tang Court - Some Ancient Connections Explored (Book, New ed)

The series of volumes of Music from the Tang Court considers a repertory of music at least 1400 years old. During the two centuries before 841 the Japanese Court borrowed a large amount of secular entertainment music from China. This 'Tang Music' (Togaku) survives in Japan in a substantial body of manuscripts, but is transformed in character in contemporary performance. This edition transcribes and comments on the music as it survives in its earliest sources. This process has revealed surprising evidence for ancient interconnections in Asian musics, and the essays in this seventh volume present aspects of this research to date. They provide evidence, for example, of music in a scale of four notes only from Bali and from Ancient China, as well as, most significantly, for the transportation from the Tang capital to Japan of 'several tens of scrolls of music in tablature'.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2006
First published:	2000
Authors:	Laurence E. R. Picken • Noel J. Nickson
Dimensions:	243 x 168 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Book
Pages:	328
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-54336-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Non-Western music, traditional & classical Books > Music > Non-Western music, traditional & classical
LSN:	0-521-54336-3
Barcode:	9780521543361

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