Music from the Tang Court: Volume 7 : Some Ancient Connections Explored (Paperback)

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. How the Togaku repertory was acquired by the Japanese; and the processes of 'acculturation' that followed its acquisition Laurence Picken; 2. In search of the music of pre-Nara Japan Laurence Picken, Noel Nickson and Okamoto Miyoko; 3. 'Old Music', 'New Music', and other classificatory terms in the musical vocabularies of Late Nara and Heian, Japan Laurence Picken; 4. Locational and functional names of notes in modal note-sets across Eurasia Laurence Picken and Noel Nickson; 5. Modal note-sets and related matters in Ancient China; in Ancient and Modern India and Persia; in Ancient Greece Laurence Picken; 6. The modal system of Togaku as a vestige of 28 mode-keys of the Tang inheritance: different modes with like finals; like modes with different finals Laurence Picken; 7. Parallels in the organization of music in time in Indonesia, Ancient India and Ancient China Laurence Picken, Nicholas Gray and Robert Walker; Envoi; Cumulative bibliography.