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Music from the Tang Court (Book, New)
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Music from the Tang Court (Book, New)
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From the oldest surviving Japanese manuscripts in tablature (ninth-
fourteenth-centuries) the book provides transcripts into
staff-notation of (largely) entertainment-music, played at banquets
at the Chinese Court in the Tang period, borrowed by the Japanese
not later than 841. The music has never been transcribed before and
has not been heard for 800 years or more, so drastically has it
been transformed in Japanese performance. The history of each piece
of music, as given in Chinese and Japanese historical sources, is
investigated. The music itself is subjected to formal analysis,
revealing its structure, its modal dynamics, and the methods of
composition. For much of the music, ballet-scores survive from the
mid-thirteenth century, and it is hoped that these may be
associated fascicles with the music as transcribed in future
fascicles. Fascicle 5 offers one immense suite, the origins of
which lie in sixth-century China: 'The King of the Grave-Mound'
(Ryo-o), together with single-stave versions and analyses of
upwards of twenty items from previous fascicles and a summary essay
restating views on the nature of 'Tang Music' (Togaku).
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