Chinese Music in Print

Yang, Yuanzheng

ISBN 10: 9888805665 / ISBN 13: 9789888805662

Verlag: Hong Kong University Press, 2023

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Inhaltsangabe:

A collection of rare musical artifacts from the University of Hong Kong’s Fung Ping Shan Library.

Chinese Music in Print is grounded in a desire to move rare items from the University of Hong Kong’s Fung Ping Shan Library from the world of music and into a context of books and images in American, British, and other Asian collections. This book views the library as a repository not of information but of artifacts and then uses these artifacts as a means for generating a scholarly narrative. It begins by assessing seminal texts in the Confucian canon set against the delicacy of the concubine and amanuensis as reflected in Shen Cai’s calligraphy and poetry. Confucianism was a crucial aspect of courtly life, and an analysis of its ritual is the book’s second theme. Vernacular genres of opera and song are represented in the third chapter, while the Great Sage returns in the fourth for an exploration of the repertoire and richness of his favorite instrument, the qin. The final chapter ends the journey with a discussion of the legacy of generations of Europeans who have visited China and their contribution to the understanding of the erhu.
 

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Yang Yuanzheng is a professor in the Department of Music at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Dragon's Roar: Chinese Literati Musical Instruments in the Freer and Sackler Collections and Plum Blossom on the Far Side of the Stream: The Renaissance of Jiang Kui's Lyric Oeuvre.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Chinese Music in Print
Verlag: Hong Kong University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Einband: HRD
Zustand: New