Early Chinese Music Resources: Shang
compiled by David Badagnani (rev. 29 July 2022)
In an effort to make it more accessible, this document contains resources related to the musical heritage of the Shang Dynasty (商朝, c. 1600 BC-c. 1046 BC).
Links to textual sources are highlighted in green.
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Historical reference works about the music of the Shang Dynasty
● Shiji 《史记》 (Records [of the Grand] Historian), also called Taishigong Shu 《太史公书》 (Book of the Grand Historian) or Taishigong Ji 《太史公记》 (Records of the Grand Historian)
The official history of China's pre-Han period, this text covers the world as it was then known to the Chinese, encompassing a 2,500-year period from the age of the legendary Yellow Emperor (黄帝, alleged to have reigned from 2698 BC to 2598 BC) to the reign of Emperor Wu of Han (汉武帝, r. 141 BC-87 BC) in the author's own time, also including the Xia, Shang, Zhou, and Qin Dynasties. Shiji was completed c. 94 BC by the Western Han Dynasty historian Sima Qian (司马迁, c. 145 BC-c. 86 BC), after having been started by his father, Sima Tan (司马谈, c. 165 BC-110 BC), a Western Han historian and astrologer. It is one of the Twenty-Four Histories (二十四史). Music is discussed in several volumes.
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Shang-era poems about music
Bibliography
● Falkenhausen, Lothar von. Suspended Music: Chime-Bells in the Culture of Bronze Age China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
● Tong, Kin-Woon. "Shang Musical Instruments," part 1 (of 3). Asian Music, vol. 14, no. 2 (1983), pp. 17-182.
● Tong, Kin-Woon. "Shang Musical Instruments," part 2 (of 3). Asian Music, vol. 15, no. 1 (1983), pp. 102-184.
● Tong, Kin-Woon. "Shang Musical Instruments," part 3 (of 3). Asian Music, vol. 15, no. 2 (1984), pp. 67-143.
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