Hsi Kʼang and His Poetical Essay on the Lute

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Sophia University, 1969 - Music - 133 pages

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Contents

List of Abbreviations
9
A brief biography of Hsi Kang
45
PART II
51
Copyright

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Hsi K'ang and His Poetical Essay on the Lute
Robert Hans van Gulik
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Bamboo Grove century Ch'ang-ti-fu Ch'iao Ch'in Ch'in-fu Chapter character chih Chin period Chin-shu biography Chinese Literature Chinese Lute Chou Chuang-tzû Chung Hui clear commentary composed Confucius died edition elegant Emperor Shun executed famous floating sounds floating tones flute fu on musical Han dynasty harmony Hsi K'ang Hsi K'ang's biography Hsiang Hsiu Hsü Hsün Huang Huang-ti K‘ang Kuang-ling-san later Legge Letter breaking Li Shan Lieh-hsien-chuan literary Lo-yang Lü An's luan lute handbook lute melody lute music lute player main motif meaning mentioned Ming mountains mouth organ musical instruments musical subjects official onomatopoeic original passage Playing the lute Pleiad poems poet Poetical Essay Prince of Ning prose quoted recluse refer says Seven Sages Shan T'ao shêng Shih songs strings style Sun Têng Sung Sung Dynasty T'ang dynasty Taoist term tones tradition tree Ts'ao clan tune Wei Emperor Wei-chih writer Wu-ch'iu Chien Yüan

About the author (1969)

Robert H. Van Gulik was born in the Netherlands on August 9, 1910. He joined the Dutch Foreign Service in 1935. From 1942-1945, he was secretary for the Dutch mission to Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government in Chongqing, China. During this time, he translated a number of Chinese texts including Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An). He proceeded to write sixteen of his own Judge Dee novels. His scholarly works included Siddham: An Essay on the History of Sanskrit Studies in China and Japan, Hayagriva: Horse Cult in Asia, and Sexual Life in Ancient China. He died on September 24, 1967.

Bibliographic information

TitleHsi Kʼang and His Poetical Essay on the Lute
Volume 4 of Monumenta Nipponica monographs
AuthorRobert Hans van Gulik
Editionreprint, revised
PublisherSophia University, 1969
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedJan 26, 2010
ISBN0804808686, 9780804808682
Length133 pages
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