Download or read book New Songs from a Jade Terrace written by Anne Birrell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1982, was the first translation of the Chinese classic Yü-t-‘ai hsin-yung – the unique anthology of love poems, compiled in AD 545. This traces the development of love poetry from the second century BC to its full flowering in the fifth and sixth centuries AD. Dr Birrell’s incisive introductory essay provides a concise survey of the historical and literary setting to the poems and explains the conventions governing courtly love poetry. In particular, the reader’s attention is drawn to the many and varied artistic uses of imagery in the poems. Major poets are noted for their artistic achievement and for their contribution to the development of the genre. Dr Birrell also supplies a valuable section of notes on the poems to guide the reader through unfamiliar historical events, legends, anecdotes and famous places and people, and there is a similar section of notes on the poets offering biographical details.

Download or read book Three Chinese love songs written by Bright Sheng and published by G. Schirmer, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (String Solo). Requested by Seiji Ozawa for Leonard Bernstein's 70th Birthday celebration, Bright Sheng's Three Chinese Love Songs is for Voice, Viola, and Piano. Set to Chinese folk songs, this collection includes: Blue Flower * At the Hillside Where Horses Are Running * and The Streams Flows.

Download or read book Cantonese Love Songs written by Peter Morris and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 97 Cantonese love songs aims to give a wider audience the opportunity of reading these songs in English. The author investigates the language and social background of the songs and provides cross-references to Chinese and Western literature.The Chinese text of the poems is also included.

Download or read book Shan ge the Mountain Songs written by Yasushi OKI and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountain Songs is a collection of folk songs edited by the famous writer Feng Menglong (1574-1646). By this innovative work - mainly written in the Suzhou dialect - he aimed to revitalize poetry through the power of popular songs. This collection is very significant to the understanding of the characters of the mobile society of Jiangnan and the vitality of its intellectual world. The songs deal with the lives of common people: women, often prostitutes, boatmen, peasants, hunters, fishers and paddlers. Their spirit is far from the orthodox moral intents that Zhu Xi advocated for interpreting the Shijing, and their language is often vulgar and full of crude expressions or salacious double meanings and contains allusions to sexual and erotic behaviour.

Download or read book Chinese Love Songs written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sizhu Instrumental Music of South China written by Alan Thrasher and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to a reader's report, this is "one of the finest studies on (any kind of) Chinese music to emerge in recent years." Based on extensive fieldwork and a thorough knowledge of the scholarly literature, the author examines the theoretical underpinnings of the 'silk and bamboo' instrumental ensemble traditions of the Chaozhou, Hakka and Cantonese peoples of South China. Stepping back far into history, the book opens with a penetrating examination of Confucian theory, the ancient corpus of behavioral doctrine which promoted music as a means of achieving social harmony and which, together with Daoist belief, exercised unusually strong influence over common-practice music and aesthetics. This is followed by a rigorous analysis of the music itself, focusing upon linear and modal structures and performance styles which reflect a fascinating mix of ancient ideologies and more recent influences.

Download or read book Two Chinese Love Songs written by George Hurst and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cantonese Love songs written by Ziyong Zhao and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China written by Anne Birrell and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oral factor in Chinese literature, although critically important, has been largely neglected in the scholarship of the last generation. In this study, one of the leading specialists in classical Chinese literature introduces readers to a repertoire of seventy-seven songs and ballads of early imperial China. Each song-text is newly translated and fully annotated and explicated. Anne Birrell deals systematically with problems of the earliest sources, attribution, textual variants, meter, and structure. Her introductory essay provides a valuable sociohistorical context for this material. First published in 1988, this important study of the folk song has become standard reading for students of oral literature and Chinese folklore and popular culture.

Download or read book Love Songs written by Ted Gioia and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the unexplored history of the love song, from the fertility rites of ancient cultures to the sexualized YouTube videos of the present day, and discusses such topics as censorship, the legacy of love songs, and why it is a dominant form of modern musical expression.

Download or read book Songs of Love Moon and Wind written by Eliot Weinberger and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nothing stands still in this poetry: the wind blows the trees, the lake water ripples and the ever-present road runs in and out of the hills."--American Poetry Review

Download or read book Chinese Love songs written by Rolf Liebermann and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book For a Song and a Hundred Songs written by Yiwu Liao and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the renowned Chinese poet in exile comes a gorgeous and shocking account of his years in prison following the Tiananmen Square protests.

Download or read book Chinese Love Poetry written by Anne Birrell and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Types of Modern and Ancient Chinese Lovesongs written by Liang Chi-Chao and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cantonese love songs written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: