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1 online resource (1 score (x, 165 pages)) : illustrations, facsimiles. |
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notated music ntm rdacontent |
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performed music prm rdacontent audio files |
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computer c rdamedia |
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audio s rdamedia audio files |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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digital rdatr |
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audio file rdatr |
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MP3 |
| Series |
Recent researches in the oral traditions of music ; 8 |
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Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573 |
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Recent researches in the music of the oral traditions of music ; 8.
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Recent researches in music online. 2577-4573
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| Language |
Song texts in Chinese; commentary in English. |
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Staff notation. |
| Note |
Title "Fan bai" appears on cover in Chinese characters. |
| Performer |
Principally performed by members of the Xiang guang Buddhist Temple and the Fo guang shan Monastery, both in Taiwan. |
| Note |
Includes historical information, musical analysis and transcriptions, and reproduction of the complete liturgy of the daily service (morning and evening services) in Chinese characters with instrumental notation. |
| Summary |
"Liturgical chants, the most pervasive traditional elements in religious life, provide a sense of historical continuity for Chinese Buddhists ... A common feature shared by all Chinese Buddhist liturgies is that their ritual process has no verbal command. Instead, instrumental cues and chanting style, which divide ritual passages and dictate actions, lead the participants as they engage in liturgical performance. Several types of liturgical books provide written guidelines for performing congregational Buddhist chants, but none includes melodic notation; rhythm and instrumental operations are the only prescribed musical elements. The melodies are thus conveyed from generation to generation through oral transmission, and this process greatly strengthens the sense of unity among Chinese Buddhists despite local and temporal variations in practice. This volume is intended to serve a broad audience: the general reader, Buddhist monastic members, Chinese Buddhists, music scholars, and Buddhist scholars. It presents Chinese Buddhist chants of various liturgies, styles, functions, and techniques in the course of three chapters. Chapter 1 provides fundamental information about the chant tradition, including early chant categories, contemporary liturgies, instruments, notation, performance, and modern conceptual transformations. Chapter 2 explicates the musical attributes and ritual functions of chants through a detailed commentary on nine contemporary stylistic forms of Chinese Buddhist liturgical chants. Chapter 3 explores the liturgy of the daily service in conjunction with a complete facsimile, demonstrating the liturgical logic and religious sentiment of Chinese Buddhism. Audio recordings that supplement the historical and analytical discussions are provided as MP3 files." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed April 9, 2019). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-165) and glossary (pages 158-162). |
| Contents |
History and background. Major categories of early Chinese Buddhist chants ; Liturgies of contemporary Chinese Buddhism ; Chant principles and techniques ; Monastic instruments and music notation ; Modern conceptions of Buddhist music -- Categorization and analysis of musical styles. Free chant ; Prayer ; Dhrai based on a precomposed melody ; Praises ; Gths -- The Chinese Buddhist daily service. Editions of daily recitation books ; Structure and contents ; The morning service ; The evening service -- Plates and transcriptions -- Facsimile : complete liturgy of the daily service. |
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Digital audio files. Opening gth of ragama Dhrai -- Complete main text of the morning service -- Text of Worshipping Buddhas and penance -- A prayer -- Zhunti Dhrai : from the Ritual of releasing the flaming mouths -- Baoding zan = (Incense praise) -- Hua fengxian : from the Precious penitential liturgy of the Emperor Liang -- Gth of Washing the (statue of the) Buddha -- Vowing gth of the great transference of merit -- Yuanxiao sanzhang zhu fannao = (Gth of merit transference). Melody 1 ; Melody 2 -- Morning bell gth -- Invocation of Amitbha Buddha : free-tune invocation -- Antiphonal invocation of Bhaiajyaguru Buddha -- Zhenuo miaoti : the slow mode of fanqiang -- Fast mode of fanqiang : from the jianyan in the first division of Sanshi xinian -- Mode of shuqiang : from the jianyan in the second division of Sanshi xinian -- Mode of daoqiang : from the jianyan in the third division of Sanshi xinian. |
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Buddhist chants -- Scores.
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Buddhist music -- China.
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Chant bouddhique -- Partitions.
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Buddhist music
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China https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcrd4RjtCBk4wfMhTwwG3
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| Genre/Form |
Scores
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Scores.
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Partitions (Musique)
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| Added Author |
Chen, Pi-Yen, editor.
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| Added Title |
Chinese Buddhist monastic chants |
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Fanbai |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Fan Bai. Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2010. (OCoLC)828613953 9780895796721 |
| ISBN |
9781987201499 (online) |
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1987201493 |
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9780895796721 (print) |
| Standard No. |
10.31022/OT008 doi |
| Music No. |
OT008 A-R Editions, Inc. (score) |
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OT008-CD A-R Editions, Inc. (audio files) |
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