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Music from the Tang Court
by Picken, Laurence E. R., Nickson, Nokl J.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521044523
- ISBN: 0521044529
- Publication Date: 2007
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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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.Picken, Laurence E. R. is the author of 'Music from the Tang Court', published 2007 under ISBN 9780521044523 and ISBN 0521044529.
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