?????????? / Toudai ongaku no rekishiteki kennkyuu [= A historical study of the music of the Tang dynasty] Second installment

Kishibe, Shigeo

Published by Izumi Shoin, Osaka, 2005

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8vo, pp. 14, 632, [1], 89, [2]; text in Japanese with 45-page English summary and explanatory notes; text illustrations; full navy cloth, gilt title on spine, fine in torn glassine jacket in fine slip cover without band. "Dr. Kishibe Shigeo was perhaps the pre-eminent Japanese Scholar of East Asian music history. [The English commentary in this volume] deals with his major publication on his central research topic. This second instalment, published in one volume for the first time here, brings together Dr. Kishibe's major articles on music theory, documentary source materials, music instruments, and musicians as they relate to the music of the Tang." The first edition of Kishibe's study was published in 1960 and was awarded the Japan Academy Prize in 1961.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ?????????? / Toudai ongaku no rekishiteki kennkyuu [= A historical study of the music of the Tang dynasty] Second installment
• Publisher: Izumi Shoin, Osaka
• Publication Date: 2005
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  • Asia
  • China
  • Music