Beth Szczepanski

The Instrumental Music of Wutaishan's Buddhist Monasteries

Social and Ritual Contexts

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9781138261396
• ISBN-10: 1138261394
• Artikelnr.: 53302249

Autorenporträt

Dr Beth Szczepanski, Lecturer, Ohio State University, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Part I The Music of Mañjusri's Mountain: A history of Wutaishan Buddhist music
Wutaishan and its Buddhist music today. Part II Music in Ritual at Wutaishan: Donor-sponsored ritual
Funeral observances
Calendrical observances. Part III Wutaishan's Shengguan Music: Shengguan instrumentation
Notation
Transmission of Shengguan practice
Shengguan repertoires. Part IV Buddhist Music in a Material World: Buddhist Shengguan in concerts, festivals and recordings
The politics of Buddhist music
The business of Buddhist music
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.