During the two centuries before 841, the Japanese Court borrowed a
large amount of secular entertainment music from China, chiefly
music of the Sui and Tang Courts. This music, known as 'Tang Music'
is preserved in manuscripts written between the eighth and
thirteenth centuries and to be seen today in the library of the
Imperial Palace in Tokyo and in other Japanese libraries. With
Fascicle 3 the series will begin publication of smaller suites and
pieces, together representative of the 'middle-sized pieces' and
'small pieces' (chukyoku and shokyoku) of the threefold
classification, in which the daikyoku are the largest suites. O-dai
hajin-raku from a reputedly eleventh-century manuscript: Kaicbu-fu,
in parallel with the conflation discussed in Fascicle 2, together
with single-stave, conflated, justified versions of Toraden and
Shunno-den, and structural analyses of these two suites.
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