State Sacrifices and Music in Ming China: Orthodoxy, Creativity, and ExpressivenessThis book presents a wealth of historical, ritual, and musical data preserved in authentic Ming documents, describing ritual and musical structures, thoughts, and actions of Ming emperors and scholar-officials who practiced court ritual and music for official and personal purposes. Not only the significance of Ming dynasty state sacrifices and music are illustrated, but also the roles they played in imperial China. |
Contents
Issues Definitions and a Hypothesis | 1 |
State Sacrifices in the Ming Court | 15 |
Taizus Words and Deeds of State Sacrifices and Music | 37 |
Shizongs Sericultural Ceremonials | 55 |
Ming Music Theory | 75 |
State Sacrificial Music in the Ming Court | 99 |
Ming State Sacrificial Songs | 121 |
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absolute pitches altar compound altar proper classical concerned participants Confucian Confucian scholar-officials Court of Imperial creative critical audiences Daoist deities discussion DMJL DMYQ emperors and scholar-officials expressiveness Figure gongche notation Han dynasty Heaven and Earth honoring huangzhong imperial ancestors Imperial Sacrifices jade and silk Ji Ben Lülü melodic Ming court citizens Ming dynasty Ming emperors Ming music theory Ming state sacrifices Ming theorists Ministry of Rites monials music and dance musical instruments musicians notated obeisant-post offering of wine officials palace participants and critical performed phrases pitch pipes pitch sequence practice proper music ritual and music ritual staffs sacrifice to Confucius sacrifice to Heaven sacrifices and music sacrificial ceremony sacrificial food sacrificial music sacrificial songs scholar-officials sericultural ceremonials Shenzong Shizong's spirit-throne suburban sacrifices SZSL Taichang Taizu Tang TCXK TCYQ TCZL twelve absolute pitches TZSL Veritable Records Wang Wuzong Xia Yan Xiaozong Zhang Zhang Cong Zhou ZLTD