Piercing the Structure of Tradition : Flute Performance, Continuity, and Freedom in the Music of Noh Drama /

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"Mariko Anno investigates flute performance as a site for exploring the relationship between tradition and innovation. This first English-language monograph traces the characteristics of the Noh flute (nohkan), its music, and transmission methods and considers the instrument's potential fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Anno, Mariko (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Music > Japan > History and criticism.
Nō music > History and criticism.
Nōkan > History.
Nōkan.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • History and construction of the nohkan
  • The nohkan and oral transmission: transcription in western staff notation
  • The role and melodic patterns of the nohkan in relation to structural principles
  • The nohkan's part in Atsumori as planned, prepared, and performed
  • The continuity of tradition today: the nohkan's part in adaptations of W. B. Yeats's 'At the Hawk's Well'
  • Reflections and directions.

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