Title: Qupai in Chinese music : melodic models in form and practice /
Authors: Thrasher, Alan R.
Year: 2016
Subjects: Qupai.; Music China History and criticism
Contents: Part A: Introduction. Qupai in theory and practice / Alan R. Thrasher -- History through qupai: a re-examination / Kar Lun Alan Lau -- Part B: Instrumental qupai. Crossing stages, crossing countries, crossing times: instrumental qupai in European scholarship / François Picard -- Bianzou methodologies in traditional practice / Alan R. Thresher -- Baban: instrumental ideal and the classical repertoire / Alan R. Thrasher -- Part C: Vocal qupai. Qupai in kunqu: text-music issues / François Picard and Kar Lun Alan Lau -- Qupai practice in luju opera, Anhui province / Yu Hui -- Part D: Taoqu suite forms. Qupai suite forms in nanguan and other traditions / Alan R. Thrasher -- Minnan meihua sannong: the 'mother form' of jiangnan sanliu / Chen Yingshi -- Instrumental and vocal suites: a study of pu'an zhou / François Picard.