The Shaping of the Book of Songs: From Ritualization to Secularization

ISBN-13: 9783805005418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 380 str.

ZHI CHEN

Opis

The present work is a study on the formation of the Shih-ching. The author poses the hypothesis that this collection of poems, as the standard music and literature passed down to later generations, initially incorporated different cultural heritages through a process which moved from ritualization to secularization, as well as standardization to localization. In aiming to find the origins of the division of the Shih-ching into sections and subsections and their titles, as "Nan," "Feng," "Ya," and "Sung," the author employs an interdisciplinary methodology, combining ethno-musicological methods with paleography, philology, and archaeology. He draws on new archaeological data of the past two decades that has shed new light on the Shih-ching. Contents Chapter I The State of the Field and the Methodological Concern Chapter II Yung, Sung and Sunng Sacrificial Musical Works Performed in the Shang House Chapter III The Standardization of the Ya Music Chapter IV A Paleographic Analysis of Nan and Its Significance for Interpreting the Meaning of the "Nan" Section of the Book of Songs Chapter V The Localization of the Conception of Ya: The Revival of Shang Musical Elegance Chapter VI Towards a Conclusion Bibliography

O autorze

Chen Zhi