Music from the Tang Court

Some Ancient Connections Explored

Bibliographic Data

ID19906294
AuthorsLaurence Picken (University of Cambridge), Laurence E R Picken, Nicholas Gray (0009-0008-4519-874X), Noël J Nickson, Noel Nickson, Nol J Nickson, okam Miyoko
Year2000
Pages328
Publication date2000-06-08
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueMusic from the Tang Court (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511552373
OpenAlexW1974755310
Open LibraryOL7745626M
ISBN9780511552373
LanguageEN
Citations received14

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'

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