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The Instrumental Music of Wutaishan's Buddhist Monasteries: Social and Ritual Contexts

The Instrumental Music of Wutaishan's Buddhist Monasteries: Social and Ritual Contexts

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Series: Soas Studies in Music

General Music

ISBN10: 1409427439
ISBN13: 9781409427438
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 28 2012
Pages: 200
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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