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Förord: Note on transliteration ; List of facsimile sources ; Introduction. Written transmission of the Silk and Bamboo repertoire ; Form and tonality in Silk and Bamboo music ; Notes on performance practice ; Editorial methods

Musik: Silk and Bamboo. 1, Parasitic Weeds 寄生草 (Kia senn tshau) ; 2, Up to the Cloud 上雲梯 (Seong wan tai) ; 3, Poetry of the West Chamber 西廂詞 (Xi xiong ci) ; 4, Fish at the Bottom 水底魚 (Tsui te hi) ; 5, Entering the Palace 南進宮 (Nam jin giung) ; 6, Lantern and the Moon Competing for Brilliance 燈月交輝 (Deng yue jiao hui) ; 7, A Drop of Gold 一點金 (Yid diam gim) ; 8, Triratna 三寶佛 (Saam bou fat) ; 9, Yearning for Spring 思春 (Si chun) ; 10, Ornamented Sixty Ban 花六板 (Hua liu ban) ; 11, Spring in Hundreds of Families 百家春 (Bag ga cun) ; 12, Rainbow Skirt Tune 霓裳曲 (Ni chang qu) ; 13, Dragon Roars in Autumn River 秋水龍吟 (Cau seoi long jam) ; 14, Pipa Poetry 琵琶詞 (Pipa ci) ; 15, Warm Wind Melody 薰風曲 (Hiun fung khiuk) ; 16, Nostalgia 懷古 (Fai gu) ; 17, Running Horses 走馬 (Zau maa) ; 18, Autumn Moon over the Han Palace 漢宮秋月 (Han gong qiu yue) ; 19, Rain Pattering on Plantain Leaves 雨打芭蕉 (Jyu daa baa ziu) ; 20, Autumn Thoughts by the Dressing Table 妝臺秋思 (Zhuang tai qiu si) ; 21, Calm Lake 平湖 (Pin fu) ; 22, River-Crossing Dragon 過江龍 (Gue gang leng) ; 23, An Ingot of Gold 一錠金 (Yat ding gaam) ; 24, Inverted Sixty-Eight Ban 陽八曲 (Yang ba qu)

Introduktion och kommentarer på engelska

Traditionell västerländsk notskrift

"Each melody is here presented in three forms: a facsimile of the traditional gongche score drawn from various manuscripts and early published anthologies, a transcription of the gongche notation in the jianpu numeric cipher system often used by silk and bamboo musicians today, and a corresponding transcription in staff notation." -- Utgivarens webbplats