Saibara: Volume 2, Music : Japanese Court Songs of the Heian Period (Paperback)

Appendices: 1. Complete transcriptions of the 55 Saibara preserved in tablature for lute and zither in the twelfth century manuscripts, sango-yoroku and jinchi-yoroku; 2. Comparison of six Saibara from the twelfth-century textual sources with the musical versions from sango-yoroku and jinchi-yoroku; 3. Transcription of togaku- and komagaku-pieces linked with Saibara, but in modes other than hyojo or sojo, from the twelfth-century flute manuscript hakuga no fue-fe and from sango-yoroku and sango-yoryaku; 4. Transcription of the Ryo-Saibara, mimasaka from the flute manuscript date 1193; 5. Transcription of a fragment of lute-tablature of late Heian or early Kamakura date containing section 5 of the Ritsu-Saibara, takasago; 6. Comparative transcriptions of the 20 Saibara in the twelfth century lute-manuscript sango-yoryaku with their primary and alternative lute-versions from sango-yoroku.