Eurasian musical journeys

Eurasian musical journeys: five tales

by Currie, Gabriela Ilnitchi

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This Element explores the circulation of musical instruments, practices, and thought in pre-modern Eurasia at the crossroads of empires and nomadic cultures. It takes into consideration mechanisms of transmission, appropriation, adaptation, and integration that helped shape musical traditions that are perceived as culturally and geographically distinct yet are historically linked. The four stories featured here range from the geographically diverse performing groups during the Sui and Tang era,…

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  • Full title :Eurasian musical journeys : five tales / Gabriela Currie, Lars Christensen.

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This Element explores the circulation of musical instruments, practices, and thought in pre-modern Eurasia at the crossroads of empires and nomadic cultures. It takes into consideration mechanisms of transmission, appropriation, adaptation, and integration that helped shape musical traditions that are perceived as culturally and geographically distinct yet are historically linked. The four stories featured here range from the geographically diverse performing groups during the Sui and Tang era, to the elusive musical world of Kucha in the Tarim Basin; from the fragmentary history of a single instrument linked to the Turkic peoples across Eurasia, to the transcontinental circulation of sound-making automata, including the organ, on both east-west and north-south axes. Within the conceptual background of cultural encounter and exchange, this Element provides possible strategies for integrating such information into the historical tapestry of Eurasian transcontinental networks as explored in other Elements in the series.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2022

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The Physical Object

  • Description:98 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1108823297, 9781108823296
  • oclc:on1286796998
  • LC Classification:ML3740
  • Dewey Decimal:781.620095

Table of Contents

1. Prologue -- 2. The cosmopolitan Chang'an -- 3. Dancing "Sogdian style": the Huxuanwu and the Hutengwu -- 4. The Western regions: Kucha -- 5. Tracking the Qopuz: from Qocho to Herat -- 6. Sound-making mechanical marvels -- 7. Epilogue -- References.

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Eurasia Folk music Folk music -- History and criticism -- … History Music -- Social aspects Music / Social aspects / Eurasia Musical instruments Musical instruments -- History -- Euras… Musique / Aspect social / Eurasie

Writers

Currie, Gabriela Ilnitchi Christensen, Lars

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