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Yuarn Music Dramas: Studies in Prosody and Structure and a Complete Catalogue of Northern Arias in the Dramatic Style

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Dale R. Johnson
2020
Published by: University of Michigan Press
Series: Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies
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Part One of Yuarn Music Dramas presents a detailed analysis of form and structure in Yuarn music drama, with sections on the act, the suite, the aria, the verse, metrics of repeated graph patterns, parallelism, and the matching of suite and mode. [vii]
Part Two presents the first catalogue of arias of its kind to be published in a language other than Chinese. It is a compilation of all of the arias in the northern dramatic style that are found in the 162 titles contained in the Yuarn-chyuu shyuann and the Yuarn-chyuu shyuaan waih-bian. It is modeled on several such catalogues compiled over the past six hundred years. [99]

Table of Contents

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Cover

Series Page

pp. i-ii

Title Page

pp. iii

Copyright

pp. iv

Dedication

pp. v-vi

Contents

pp. vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp. ix-x

Code to Symbols in Part One

pp. xi-xii

Abbreviations

pp. xiii-xvi

Part One

pp. 1-2

Form and Structure in Yuarn Music Drama

pp. 3-86

Notes

pp. 87-96

Part Two: The Catalogue Of Arias

pp. 97-98

Preface to the Catalogue of Arias

pp. 99-107

The Catalogue of Arias

pp. 109-320

Appendix 1: The Major Editions of Yuarn Music Dramas

pp. 321-326

Appendix 2: Master Index to Variant Editions of Yuarn Music Dramas

pp. 327-343

Appendix 3: Index to the Yuarn-chyuu shyuaan by Popular Title

pp. 345-347

Appendix 4: Romanization Conversion Table: Wade-Giles to Simplified National System

pp. 349--351

Index to Aria Titles and Alternate Titles

pp. 353-362

Chinese Character Index to Yuarn Aria Titles by inese Character

pp. 363

Page Index to the Arias

pp. 365-367

Select Bibliography

pp. 369-376

Series List

pp. 379-381
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