Mount Wutai Buddhist Music

Author: Han Jun
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: Mount Wutai is one of China's four major Buddhist sacred sites. Its Buddhist music, with a history spanning thousands of years, is vast and profound, representing a valuable legacy of Chinese musical culture. This book is the result of the author's years of collection, excavation, organization, and documentation, as well as extensive research into historical literature. It discusses the history of Mount Wutai's Buddhist music from its inception to the present, covering its origins, formation, development, and perfection. The book provides a detailed description of the Buddhist rituals and music in Mount Wutai's Han and Tibetan Buddhist traditions, as well as the forms of Buddhist scripture recitation and their relationship with music. It also conducts an in-depth study and introduction of the forms, scales, tonal systems, rhythmic patterns, and structural compositions of Mount Wutai's Buddhist music. The book includes all collected musical scores of Mount Wutai's Buddhist music recorded by the author, photographs of extended musical activities and Buddhist musical instruments, as well as facsimiles of three original musical scores of Mount Wutai's Buddhist music.