© Columbia University Press
Zeami: Performance Notes
April, 2008
Cloth, 528 pages, 28 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13958-8
$45.00
/ £26.50
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Transmitting the Flower Through Effects and Attitudes
An Extract from Learning the Flower
Oral Instructions on Singing
A Mirror to the Flower
A Course to Attain the Flower
Figure Drawings of the Two Arts and the Three Modes
The Three Courses
Technical Specifications for Setting a Melody
A Collection of Jewels in Effect
An Effective Vision of Learning the Vocation of Fine Play in Performance
Five Ranks
Nine Ranks
Six Models
Pick Up a Jewel and Take the Flower in Hand
Articles on the Five Sorts of Singing
Five Sorts of Singing
Learning the Profession
Traces of a Dream on a Single Sheet
The Flower in . . . Yet Doubling Back
Two Letters to Master Konparu
Appendix 1. Music, Dance, and Performance in Sarugaku
Appendix 2. On the Manuscripts
Appendix 3. Zeami's Languages
Glossary
Bibliography
Index