Musica Asiatica: Volume 5
Volume 5
Published on 16. July 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-0-521-11661-9 (ISBN)
Description
This is the fifth volume in a series of books devoted to the history, documentation and analysis of music in Asia. The five essays each have a different focus ranging from historical change in the Turkish classical repertoire, speech-tones and vocal melody in Thai court song, ritual theatre music in ancient India, pieces for biwa in calendrically correct tunings and an investigation of the sources for Japanese flute scores from the fourteenth century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
452 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-11661-9 (9780521116619)
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Richard Widdess
Musica Asiatica: Volume 5
Book
07/1988
Cambridge University Press
€61.90
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Richard Widdess
Musica Asiatica: Volume 5
Book
07/1988
Cambridge University Press
€61.90
Article exhausted; check for reprint
Content
1. Aspects of historical change in the Turkish classical repertoire O. Wright; 2. The relationship between speech-tones and vocal melody in Thai court song Y. Tanese-Ito; 3. Form in the ritual theatre music of ancient India L. Rowell; 4. Pieces for biwa in calendrically correct tunings from a manuscript in the Heian Museum, Kyoto E. J. Markahm, L. E. R. Picken and R. F. Wolpert; 5. An investigation of sources for Chu Oga ryuteki yoroku-fu, a Japanese flute score of the fourteenth century A. J. Marett.