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Piercing the structure of tradition : flute performance, continuity, and freedom in the music of Noh drama
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"Mariko Anno investigates flute performance as a site for exploring the relationship between tradition and innovation. This first English-language monograph traces the characteristics of the Noh fl...
"Mariko Anno investigates flute performance as a site for exploring the relationship between tradition and innovation. This first English-language monograph traces the characteristics of the Noh flute (nohkan), its music, and transmission methods and considers the instrument's potential for development in the modern world. Anno examines the musical structure and nohkan melodic patterns of five traditional Noh plays and assesses the degree to which Issō School nohkan players maintain, to this day, the continuity of their musical traditions in three contemporary Noh plays influenced by William Butler Yeats"--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- Mariko Anno
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca : Cornell East Asia Series, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020
- ©2020
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 339 pages) : illustrations
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- ISBNs
- 9781939161970, 1942242972, 9781501755804, 9781939161079, 1939161975, 9781942242970, 193916107X
- OCLC
- on1183400039
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- History and construction of the nohkan -- The nohkan and oral transmission: transcription in western staff notation -- The role and melodic patterns of the nohkan in relation to structural principles -- The nohkan's part in Atsumori as planned, prepared, and performed -- The continuity of tradition today: the nohkan's part in adaptations of W. B. Yeats's 'At the Hawk's Well' -- Reflections and directions