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Themes and variations : writings on music in honor of Rulan Chao Pian

Title
Themes and variations : writings on music in honor of Rulan Chao Pian / edited by Bell Yung and Joseph S.C. Lam.
Publication
[Cambridge, Mass.] : Department of Music, Harvard University ; [Hong Kong] : Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Pian, Rulan Chao.
  • Yung, Bell.
  • Lam, Joseph Sui Ching.
Description
viii, 360 pages : illustrations, music; 27 cm +
Subject
Ethnomusicology
Bibliography (note)
  • "Bibliography of works by Rulan Chao Pian": p.
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
  • Introduction / Bell Yung and Joseph S. C. Lam -- An Enigmatic Neume / David G. Hughes -- Notational Representation and Contextual Constraints: How and Why Did Ye Tang Notate His Kun Opera Arias? / Joseph S. C. Lam -- Not Notating the Notatable: Reevaluating the Guqin Notational System / Bell Yung -- A Camp-Meeting Spiritual / Eileen Southern -- The Songs of the Great Lakes "Big Drum" Societies: A Study in Repertoire Diffusion Among American Indian Tribes / Thomas Vennum, Jr. -- Creativity in Musical Adaptation: A Hakka Zither Melody in a Cantonese Opera / Siuwah Yu -- Notating the Unnotatable: Incorporating Performance Practice into the Descriptive Representation of Modern Hawaiian Hula Songs / Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman -- Lament Made Visible: A Study of Paramusical Elements in Russian Lament / Margarita Mazo -- The Multi-Layered Concept of "Folk Song" in American Music: The Case of Jean Ritchie's "The Two Sisters" / Anne Dhu McLucas.
  • Keiko Nosaka and the 20-Stringed Koto: Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Music / Bonnie C. Wade -- Khapsaibi Music: A Preliminary Study / Han Kuo-Huang -- Aspects of Research on Gongs and Gong-Related Instruments in Asia / Jose Maceda -- The Buffons Family of Tune Families: Variations on a Theme of Otto Gombosi's / John M. Ward.
ISBN
0674877497 :
LCCN
94026322
OCLC
  • 30701964
  • ocm30701964
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries