Zeami - Performance Notes

Informationen zum Autor Translated by Tom Hare Klappentext Zeami (1363-1443), Japan's most celebrated actor and playwright, composed more than thirty of no drama's finest plays. He also wrote a variety of texts on theater and performance that have, until now, been largely unavailable in English. Zeami: Performance Notes presents the full range of the artist's critical thought on the subject, focusing on the aesthetic values of no and its antecedents, as well as the techniques of playwriting, the place of allusion, the training of actors, the importance of patronage, and the relationship between performance and broader intellectual and critical concerns. Spanning more than four decades, these texts reflect the essence of Zeami's instruction under his famous father, the actor Kannami, and the value of his long and challenging career in medieval Japanese theater. Tom Hare begins with a comprehensive introduction discussing Zeami's critical importance in Japanese culture. He then incorporates essays on the performance of no in medieval Japan and the remarkable story of the transmission and reproduction of Zeami's manuscripts over the past six centuries. His eloquent translation is fully annotated and includes Zeami's diverse and exquisite anthology of dramatic songs, Five Sorts of Singing, presented both in English and the original Japanese. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Transmitting the Flower Through Effects and Attitudes An Extract from Learning the Flower Oral Instructions on Singing A Mirror to the Flower A Course to Attain the Flower Figure Drawings of the Two Arts and the Three Modes The Three Courses Technical Specifications for Setting a Melody A Collection of Jewels in Effect An Effective Vision of Learning the Vocation of Fine Play in Performance Five Ranks Nine Ranks Six Models Pick Up a Jewel and Take the Flower in Hand Articles on the Five Sorts of Singing Five Sorts of Singing Learning the Profession Traces of a Dream on a Single Sheet The Flower in... Yet Doubling Back Two Letters to Master Konparu Appendix 1. Music, Dance, and Performance in Sarugaku Appendix 2. On the Manuscripts Appendix 3. Zeami's Languages Glossary Bibliography Index...

Product details

• Authors: Tom Hare, Motoyiko Zeami, Zeami Motoyiko
• Assisted by: Tom Hare (Translation), Tom (Director of Graduate Studies Hare (Translation), Hare Tom (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2011
• EAN: 9780231139595
• ISBN: 978-0-231-13959-5
• No. of pages: 528
• Series: Translations from the Asian Classics; Translations from the Asian Cl; Translations from the Asian Classics; Translations from the Asian Cl
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Education, DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, DRAMA / Asian / Japanese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, Literature: history and criticism, Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights