Laurence Ernest Rowland Picken's Books

The book aims to reflect characteristic aspects of Dr Picken's study of Oriental and other non-Western musics. Appealing in particular to those engaged in the study of non-Western music, the volume will also interest everyone concerned with musical structures and their development.

This fourth fascicle publishes fourteen items, from the second scroll of pieces belonging to the Ichikotsu-cho mode-key group.

During the two centuries before 841, the Japanese Court borrowed a large amount of secular entertainment music from China, chiefly music of the Sui and Tang Courts. This music, known as 'Tang Music' is preserved in manuscripts written between the eighth and thirteenth centuries and to be seen today in the library of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo and in other Japanese libraries. This second fascicle includes two further suites from the Ichikotsu-chō mode-key group, namely Toraden, which probably originated in the early eighth century, and Shunnō-den, a ballet-suite believed to have its source in a late seventh-century piece in imitation of Cettia diphone cantans - a bush warbler with a nightingale-like song. In addition, and continuing the study of the first fascicle, a justified, conflated text of Ō-dai hajin-raku on a single stave will be included. In the light of this, a version for performance can be established.

Book's by Laurence Ernest Rowland Picken

Music and Tradition

Music and Tradition

Music and Tradition

Music and Tradition

Music from the Tang Court

Music from the Tang Court

Music from the Tang Court: Volume 2

Music from the Tang Court: Volume 2

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