| Description |
1 online resource (317 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Ritual Music in the Confucian Classics -- 2. Historical Records of Court Music -- 3. Vocal Music: Opera and Song -- 4. Qin Music and the Literati -- 5. Chinese Music through Western Eyes -- Chronology of Chinese Dynasties -- List of Tables and Figures -- Glossary of Chinese Characters -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Grounded in a desire to bring back to life rare items from the University of Hong Kong's Fung Ping Shan Library that are entwined within the world of music and to place them in a context of books and images in American, British, and other Asian collections, Chinese Music in Print views the library as a repository not of information but of artifact, and then uses these artifacts as a means for generating scholarly narrative. It begins by assessing seminal texts |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789888805426 |
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9888805428 |
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