Ritual and Music of North China: Shawm Bands in Shanxi
- Author: Jones, Stephen
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Contents
- Contents: Foreword
- Prelude
- Part 1 Lives of Shawm Band Musicians: Musics of Shanxi province
- Musics of Yanggao county
- Shawm bands in China
- Yinyang and gujiang traditions in north Yanggao
- The Hua band
- The Hua brothers
- Other gujiang
- A comparison
- The Cultural Revolution
- The reform era
- Following fashion
- Local goes national?
- Yanggao pop
- Sexism
- The learning process
- Tiantian
- Fees and 'black talk'
- The current scene
- Scholarship
- Our visits and the role of cultural officials
- Washington 2002
- UK and Holland 2005
- Conclusion: lives and livelihood. Part 2 Shawm Bands and Daoists in Performance: Funerals and Temple Fairs: Introduction
- Funerals
- The 1st day
- Inviting relatives and burning the treasuries
- Transferring offerings
- The burial procession
- Temple fairs
- Xujiayuan
- Gushan
- Lower Liangyuan
- Conclusion: ritual and musical impoverishment. Part 3 Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing: Instrumentation
- Instruments and makers
- Pitch, scales, and gongche
- Learning heterophony and idiom
- Melodic styles
- Ostinato sections and cadences
- Metre and percussion patterns
- Repetition and variability
- Repertories
- Processional pieces
- The 8 great suites
- Vocal-derived 'small pieces'
- Conclusion: ritual sound
- Bibliography
- Glossary-Index.