Complete Collection of Opera Genres in Chinese Peking Opera: Volume 7

Author: Huang Ke
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The Complete Collection of Peking Opera School Playbooks is a key book publishing project under the 11th Five-Year Plan of the National Key Book Publishing Program. It encompasses representative plays of various Peking Opera schools and is the most comprehensive collection of Peking Opera scripts since the founding of the People's Republic of China, featuring the widest range of schools, the most numerous plays, and the most detailed arrangements. Many of the plays included have never been published before. The compilers mainly consist of successors of the schools, renowned amateurs, Peking Opera scholars, and teaching elites from schools, forming a strong team. The playbooks are recorded in their entirety, including script texts, vocal scores, orchestration, percussion patterns, physical movements, and costumes. This collection includes the representative plays of Tang Yunsheng, such as The Dragon Gate Mountain, Driving the Chariot in Battle, The Scholar's Loss of Honor for a Crane, The Court Chaos and the Dog, The Execution of Han Xin in the Palace, The Ancient City Meeting, and Beheading at the Three Passes. This book adopts a full-record method (including costumes, script texts, vocal scores, percussion patterns, and movement scores), featuring the playbooks of Tang Yunsheng's The Dragon Gate Mountain, Driving the Chariot in Battle, The Scholar's Loss of Honor for a Crane, The Court Chaos and the Dog, The Execution of Han Xin in the Palace, The Ancient City Meeting, and Beheading at the Three Passes.