A history of Japanese music / Eta Harich-Schneider.

Author/creator Harich-Schneider, Eta
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : Oxford University Press, 1973.
Descriptionxviii, 720 pages, 33 unnumbered pages : illustrations (including 1 color), facsimiles, map, music ; 27 cm
Subjects
Music--Japan. --History and criticism.

Contents Part 1. The beginnings. The Jomon, Yayoi, and tumuli periods. The Jomon period ; The Yayoi period ; Instruments of the Yayoi period ; The tumuli period. Haniwa ; Early music and musical instruments on the Asiatic mainland ; Earliest literary references: Kojiki and Nihongi ; The Kume-uta ; The Uta-gaki, and Ainu and Formosan folk-songs ; Shinto ceremonies ; Secular music -- Part 2. From the introduction of Buddhism to the end of the Nara Period. General. The evidence of the chronicles. The Buddhist background ; The introduction of Buddhism to Japan ; The Taikwa reform and its consequences ; Music in the Buddhist rites ; Music in the Shinto rites ; Music at court ; Military music ; Dances ; Types of music -- Other evidence. Pictorial evidence for Buddhist music ; Pictorial evidence for secular music (gigaku and sangaku) ; Instruments. Wind instruments ; Stringed instruments ; Percussion instruments -- Masks ; Costumes of dancers and musicians ; Manuscripts ; Musical texts -- Part 3. The early Heian period (794-897). General developments in politics and music. The emperor Kwammu ; Music in magic and religion ; Music at court ; Kwammu's sons: political developments ; Composers and performers -- Music and musical instruments of the period. The Chinese musical background ; Japanese music of the period: percussion instruments and rhythmic patterns ; Stringed instruments ; The Sho ; Other wind instruments ; Ensembles ; Chinese and Japanese music theory -- Pictorial evidence. Bugaku ; The Taema Mandala ; The Shinzei-kogaku-zu. Instruments and instrumentalists ; Bugaku -- The Kinka-fu ; Netori -- Part 4. The later Heian period: Fujiwara (897-1185). The tenth century. Political background ; Hakuga ; Hakuga's flutebook ; Saibara ; Roei ; The later Fujiwara period. Political background ; Literary evidence ; Songs and dances. Motomasa's Ryumeisho ; Moronaga's Jinchi-yoroku ; Moronaga's Sango-yoroku ; Other collections and treatises ; Kagura -- Part 5. Kamakura and Muromachi (1185-1573). The historical background. Taira and Minamoto ; The Hojo regents ; Ashikaga ; The position of music -- Buddhist music. Buddhist attitudes to music ; Buddhist music in China ; The first Buddhist music in Japan ; Ennin ; Ennin's successors in the Tendai sect ; The development of shomyo in the Singon sect ; The earliest surviving musical manuscripts. Shichi-no-sam ; Ubaribai ; Inzei Amida-kyo ; Sanjuni-so ; Gyosan Taigaishu -- Music theory in the Gyosan Taigaishu ; The melodic structure of shomyo ; Rhythm and metre ; Instruments -- Musical manuscripts (1). Roei collections ; Saibara collections ; Mikagura collections ; Other musical manuscripts -- Musical manuscripts (2). The Kyokunsho ; The Zoku-Kyokunshoh ; The Taigensho. The sho ; The oteki ; The hichiriki and shakuhachi ; The stringed instruments ; Bamboo, earth, wood, metal, and stone instruments ; Other topics -- Popular music and the rise of the No. Aristocratic and popular attitudes to music ; Fuzoko ; Imayo ; Dengaku ; Joruri ; Sarugaku-no-no ; The Kwadensho ; Other treatises by Zeami ; The Hachijo Kwadensho ; The music of No -- Part 6. The Christian era and Tokugawa (1549-1867). The first introduction of western music. Francis Xavier ; The diffusion of western music after Xavier's departure ; Christian schools and seminaries ; The misterios ; Instrumental music ; Frater Lourenco ; Valignano's first visit, later developments ; The Japanese delegation to the Pope ; The legates' Latin diary ; Hideyoshi: Valignano's second visit ; Music printing and the making of western musical instruments in Japan ; Western views of Japanese music ; Rodriguez Tcuzzu ; The end of the missions and suppression of Christianity -- Tokugawa. Historical survey ; Cultural trends ; Traditional music. No ; Gagaku ; The Gakkaroku ; Some Shahon of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; Tradition and change in vocal notation ; Bugaku ; The revival of Shinto dances and kagura ; Mikagura ; The Yakumo-koto -- Buddhist music ; Semi-religious and secular itinerant musicians and their instruments. The Shakuhachi ; The Biwa ; The Shamisen ; The Eika ; The Zoku-koto (Zoku-so) ; The Nigen-kin and Ichigen-kin ; The Kokyu -- Transcriptions ; Bunraku and Kabuki -- Part 7. Music after the restoration. The Re-introduction of Western music. Military music ; Other genres of Western music ; Musical education ; Japanese and foreign musicians ; Western and eastern attitudes to music ; Western and eastern teaching methods ; Other contrasts -- The condition of the survivals. Gagaku. The Meiji reforms ; After World War II ; Problems of research -- Mikagura ; Related Shinto music ; Buddhist music ; No ; Other theatrical music: Kabuki and Bunraku ; Zokugaku instrumental music ; Urban songs and regional folk-songs ; Attitudes to tradition and change; the general outlook.
Abstract This study provides a chronological survey of two thousand years of musical activity in Japan. It begins with evidence discovered in prehistoric excavations, and includes discussions of surviving instruments, pictorial evidence, written records of successive periods, and the modern acceptance of Western music. Offering a comprensive view of the changes, developments, and consistencies in Japanese music-making, the author presents the social and political climate of each musical phenomena. An extensive portrayal of ancient and mysterious music, this history will interest musicologists and students of Japanese culture.
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Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 598-617).
LCCN 73161349
ISBN0193162032

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