Read more
Klappentext The sixth volume of Musica Asiatica is a collection of essays on the music of East Asia. Zusammenfassung The sixth volume of Musica Asiatica is a collection of essays on the music of East Asia. Four essays are dedicated to documents from the past. The remainder concern contemporary documents. The focus on musical documents provides a unifying thread which renders this volume unique in the ethnomusicological literature on East Asian music. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Koguryo instruments in Tomb No.1 at Ch'ang-ch'uan, Manchuria Song Bang-Song; Shakuhachi honkyoku notation: written sources in an oral tradition Riley Lee; Single sound: basic structure of the music of the Japanese flute shakuhachi Andreas Gutzwiller and Gerald Bennett; A report on Chinese research into the Dunhuang music manuscripts Chen Yingshi; Translation Coralie Rockwell; Where did Toragaku come from? David Waterhouse; Musico-religious implications of some Buddhist views of sound and music in the Surangama Sutra Gregg W. Howard; Composition and improvisation in Satsuma biwa Hugh De Ferranti; Glossary of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean terms.
