Zeami: Performance Notes

Translated by Tom Hare

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Paper, 528 pages, 28 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13959-5
$27.50 / £19.00

April, 2008
Cloth, 528 pages, 28 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13958-8
$55.00 / £38.00

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

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature

Series

• Translations from the Asian Classics

About the Author

Tom Hare is William Sauter LaPorte ’28 Professor of Regional Studies in the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His most recent books are Zeami’s Style: The Noh Plays of Zeami Motokiyo and ReMembering Osiris: Number, Gender, and the Word in Ancient Egyptian Representational Systems.

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