Harmony and counterpoint
Subtitle: ritual music in Chinese context
By: edited by Bell Yung, Evelyn S. Rawski, and Rubie S. Watson.
Contributors: Yung, Bell.; Rawski, Evelyn Sakakida.; Watson, Rubie S. 1945-
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Music -- Religious aspects.; Music -- China -- History and criticism.; Rites and ceremonies -- China.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-285) and index.
Table of contents: value: The nature of Chinese ritual sound / Bell Yung; value: Ritual and musical politics in the court of Ming Shizong / Joseph S.C. Lam; value: State sacrificial music and Korean identity / Robert C. Provine; value: Musical assertion of status among the Nexi of Lijiang County, Yunnan / Helen Rees; value: Chinese bridal laments : the claims of a dutiful daughter / Rubie S. Watson; value: Processional music in traditional Taiwanese funerals / Ping-Hui Li; value: The creation of an emperor in eighteenth-century China / Evelyn S. Rawski; value: Singing to the spirits of the dead : a Daoist ritual of salvation / Judith Magee Boltz; value: Ritual opera and the bonds of authority : transformation and transcendence / Ellen R. Judd.