Music from the Tang Court: Volume 6 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521044523)

This volume brings to an end the transcription and description of thirty-one items from the Court Entertainment Music of the Tang. Of particular interest are a tune for a birthplace-ode by the Taizong Emperor, music for spear throwing, and a piece imitating calls between sexual partners in a flock of geese. Important appendices discuss stylistic differences between music of the Tang and imitative Japanese compositions, Tang compositions with military associations, and relatedness between movements in suites from the Tang.

Author: Laurence E. R. Picken
ISBN-10: 0521044529
ISBN-13: 9780521044523
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/29/2007
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.65d