The Instrumental Music Of Wutaishan S Buddhist Monasteries

Author : Beth Szczepanski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317027461

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The Instrumental Music of Wutaishan's Buddhist Monasteries by Beth Szczepanski Pdf

Beth Szczepanski examines how traditional and modern elements interact in the current practice, reception and functions of wind music, or shengguan, at monasteries in Wutaishan, one of China's four holy mountains of Buddhism. The book provides an invaluable insight into the political and economic history of Wutaishan and its music, as well as the instrumentation, notation, repertoires, transmission and ritual function of monastic music at Wutaishan, and how that music has adapted to China's current economic, political and religious climate. The book is based on extensive field research at Wutaishan from 2005 to 2007, including interviews with monks, nuns, pilgrims and tourists. The author learned to play the sheng mouth organ and guanzi double-reed pipe, and recorded dozens of performances of monastic and lay music. The first extensive examination of Wutaishan's music by a Western scholar, the book brings a new perspective to a topic long favored by Chinese musicologists. At the same time, the book provides the non-musical scholar with an engaging exploration of the historical, political, economic and cultural forces that shape musical and religious practices in China.

Author : Beth Szczepanski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317027454

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The Instrumental Music of Wutaishan's Buddhist Monasteries by Beth Szczepanski Pdf

Beth Szczepanski examines how traditional and modern elements interact in the current practice, reception and functions of wind music, or shengguan, at monasteries in Wutaishan, one of China's four holy mountains of Buddhism. The book provides an invaluable insight into the political and economic history of Wutaishan and its music, as well as the instrumentation, notation, repertoires, transmission and ritual function of monastic music at Wutaishan, and how that music has adapted to China's current economic, political and religious climate. The book is based on extensive field research at Wutaishan from 2005 to 2007, including interviews with monks, nuns, pilgrims and tourists. The author learned to play the sheng mouth organ and guanzi double-reed pipe, and recorded dozens of performances of monastic and lay music. The first extensive examination of Wutaishan's music by a Western scholar, the book brings a new perspective to a topic long favored by Chinese musicologists. At the same time, the book provides the non-musical scholar with an engaging exploration of the historical, political, economic and cultural forces that shape musical and religious practices in China.

Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSD:31822026038513

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Folk Music of China by Stephen Jones Pdf

This book opens the door on the magnificent living traditions of folk music in rural China. Stephen Jones's book illustrates the beauty and variety of these folk traditions, from the plangent shawm bands of the rugged north to the more mellifluous string ensembles of the southeastern coast. Working closely with the Music Research Institute in Beijing, Stephen Jones has used his fieldwork in China to write a book offering a rare insight into the riches of these traditions. It opens up a country where for the outsider official culture still largely obscures folk traditions, and where revolutionary opera and kitsch urban professional arrangements still dominate our image of Chinese music. The book is in three parts. Part one, The Social Background, discuses the turbulent history of folk ensembles in the twentieth century and the survival of folk ceremonial; part two outlines musical features of Chinese instrumental groups, such as scales, melody, and variation; part three gives practical introductions to some of the diverse regional genres.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UCLA:L0072292832

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The Middle Way by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : China
ISBN : MINN:31951P01173143L

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China Review International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015057447263

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Chime by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSC:32106015655795

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Asian Music by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yaxiong Du
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015057526207

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Ritual Music in a North China Village by Yaxiong Du Pdf

In 1951, a group of young men from a village, Beixinzhuang which is about 25 km southeast of Beijing, orgainized a music club and started to learn music from a monk in the village. The music was primarily influenced by Confucianism and Buddhism. The author followed the music club for more than two decades. He watched the villagers' gradual adaptation to the music from modern media. The book carefully examines the cultural and social background, local belief, and the club's activities. Professor Du gives vivid accounts about the music played by the villagers, their favorite repertoire and the new modern additions, and the instruments used. A rare timeline of the musical life of a Chinese village.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132702528

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stanley Sadie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : UVA:X004956455

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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Canon to Classic rock by Stanley Sadie Pdf

Author : 馬淵卯三郎,山口修
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015040187489

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Music Cultures in Interaction; Cases between Asia and Europe by 馬淵卯三郎,山口修 Pdf

Author : Professor Yifa
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824863807

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The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China by Professor Yifa Pdf

The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China contains the first complete translation of China’s earliest and most influential monastic code. The twelfth-century text Chanyuan qinggui (Rules of Purity for the Chan Monastery) provides a wealth of detail on all aspects of life in public Buddhist monasteries during the Sung (960–1279). Part One consists of Yifa’s overview of the development of monastic regulations in Chinese Buddhist history, a biography of the text’s author, and an analysis of the social and cultural context of premodern Chinese Buddhist monasticism. Of particular importance are the interconnections made between Chan traditions and the dual heritages of Chinese culture and Indian Buddhist Vinaya. Although much of the text’s source material is traced directly to the Vinayas and the works of the Vinaya advocate Daoan (312–385) and the Lü master Daoxuan (596–667), the Chanyuan qinggui includes elements foreign to the original Vinaya texts—elements incorporated from Chinese governmental policies and traditional Chinese etiquette. Following the translator’s overview is a complete translation of the text, extensively annotated.

Author : Justin Thomas McDaniel
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824876753

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Architects of Buddhist Leisure by Justin Thomas McDaniel Pdf

Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Creative religious improvisations designed by Buddhists have been produced both within and outside of monasteries across the region—in Nepal, Japan, Korea, Macau, Hong Kong, Singapore, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Justin McDaniel looks at the growth of Asia’s culture of Buddhist leisure—what he calls “socially disengaged Buddhism”—through a study of architects responsible for monuments, museums, amusement parks, and other sites. In conversation with noted theorists of material and visual culture and anthropologists of art, McDaniel argues that such sites highlight the importance of public, leisure, and spectacle culture from a Buddhist perspective and illustrate how “secular” and “religious,” “public” and “private,” are in many ways false binaries. Moreover, places like Lek Wiriyaphan’s Sanctuary of Truth in Thailand, Suối Tiên Amusement Park in Saigon, and Shi Fa Zhao’s multilevel museum/ritual space/tea house in Singapore reflect a growing Buddhist ecumenism built through repetitive affective encounters instead of didactic sermons and sectarian developments. They present different Buddhist traditions, images, and aesthetic expressions as united but not uniform, collected but not concise: Together they form a gathering, not a movement. Despite the ingenuity of lay and ordained visionaries like Wiriyaphan and Zhao and their colleagues Kenzo Tange, Chan-soo Park, Tadao Ando, and others discussed in this book, creators of Buddhist leisure sites often face problems along the way. Parks and museums are complex adaptive systems that are changed and influenced by budgets, available materials, local and global economic conditions, and visitors. Architects must often compromise and settle at local optima, and no matter what they intend, their buildings will develop lives of their own. Provocative and theoretically innovative, Architects of Buddhist Leisure asks readers to question the very category of “religious” architecture. It challenges current methodological approaches in religious studies and speaks to a broad audience interested in modern art, architecture, religion, anthropology, and material culture.

Author : John Kieschnick
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824818415

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The Eminent Monk by John Kieschnick Pdf

In an attempt to reconstruct an elusive aspect of the medieval Chinese imagination, The Eminent Monk examines biographies of Chinese Buddhist monks, from the uncompromising ascetic to the unfathomable wonder-worker. While analyzing images of the monk in medieval China, the author addresses some questions encountered along the way: What are we to make of accounts in “eminent monk” collections of deviant monks who violate monastic precepts? Who wrote biographies of monks and who read them? How did different segments of Chinese society contend for the image of the monk and which image prevailed? By placing biographies of monks in the context of Chinese political and religious rhetoric, The Eminent Monk explores both the role of Buddhist literature in Chinese history and the monastic imagination that inspired this literature.

Author : John Kieschnick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0691096767

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The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture by John Kieschnick Pdf

Buddhism had a profound effect not only on Chinese philosophy and ritual, but also on the material culture of China. Examining the impact of books, bridges, sugar, tea and the chair, amongst other things, this text looks at how attitudes to such novelties affected the history of Chinese Buddhism.