Saturday, April 3, 2021

Tang-era piece: Jiu Cheng Yue《九城樂》

Tang-era piece:  Jiu Cheng Yue
《九城樂》
compiled by David Badagnani (rev. 3 April 2021)

In an effort to make this information more accessible, this document contains resources related to the Tang-era piece entitled Jiu Cheng Yue《九城樂》, which exists in the form of an instrumental part for a single-movement piece in four sections, each comprising 16 measures of 8/4.

As preserved in Sino-Japanese sources, this piece is called Kyūjōraku九城樂きゅうじょうらく)』or Kyūseiraku九城樂きゅうせいらく)』, and it appears in the following score collection:
● Hakuga Fue-fu『博雅笛譜』, also known as Hakuga no Fue-fu (literally "Hakuga's Fue Scores"), and properly known as Shinsen Gaku-fu (Chōshukyō Chiku-fu) 『新撰樂譜(長秋卿竹譜)』(literally "Newly Compiled Music Scores (Lord Long Autumn's Bamboo [Flute] Scores)") (966)

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Bibliography

Marett, Allan. "Hakuga's Flute-Score: A Tenth-Century Japanese Source of 'Tang-Music' in Tablature." Ph.D. dissertation. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 1976.
● Marett, Allan.  "Tunes Notated in Flute-Tablature from a Japanese Source of the Tenth Century."  Musica Asiatica, vol. 1 (1977), pp. 1-59.

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