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La musicologie historique de l’Asie orientale s’est développée depuis plusieurs décennies. L’époque Song (XIIe siècle) offre ainsi un système complet de modes, avec ses variantes ancienne, attribuée aux Tang, et moderne, ainsi qu’une version plus réduite, limitée à vingt-huit échelles. Ce système, provenant d’Inde, a disparu de la tradition mais des notations musicales ont été transmises jusqu’à nos jours, dont la transcription permet l’étude et l’interprétation.

Historical musicology of East Asia has developed over the past 70 years. The (12th century) “Song” period has left a complete system of musical modes in two varia-tions: an ancient one related to Tang, a modern one, and a more reduced one, limited to twenty-eight scales. This system, which originated in India, has disap-peared from live tradition, but musical notations have been transmitted to the present, the transcription of which allows both study and interpretation.

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### François Picard

Université Paris Sorbonne, Paris, France France

François Picard — Professeur d’ethnomusicologie analytique à l’Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), membre du Centre de recherches « Patrimoines et Langages Musicaux » et du Séminaire d’études ethnomusicologiques de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV).

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