《中国的音乐艺术》

PART Ⅰ．—THE ORIGIN OF THE ART3

INTRODUCTION．—LANGUAGE AND MELODY3

CHAPTER Ⅰ．—THE MUSIC OF THE CHINESE LANGUAGE10

CHAPTER Ⅱ．—THE BASIS OF MUSICAL COMPOSITION19

PART Ⅱ．—THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ART47

CHAPTER Ⅲ．—THE ART OF MUSICAL COMPOSITION47

CHAPTER Ⅳ．—SCALE STRUCTURE63

CHAPTER Ⅴ．—PARALLELS BETWEEN THE NEUMES OF CHINA AND EUROPE81

PART Ⅲ．—ANALYSES OF COMPOSITIONS OF HIGHEST DEVELOPMENT89

CHAPTER Ⅵ．—NOTATION89

CHAPTER Ⅶ．—METHOD OF STUDY97

CHAPTER Ⅷ．—MUSIC-POEMS AND MELODIES OF HIGHEST DEVELOPMENT.THEIR TRANSCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS104

Music-Poems composed in the T'ang and Sung dynasties with tonal superstructure added in the Ch'ing dynasty:Music-Poem I(Untitled),analysed to show the strict application of tones upon neumes;the basis of melody,rhythm and form analysed104

Music-Poem Ⅱ(Tan Kuei),analysed to demon-strate the general application of tones to neumes;its melody,rhythm and form analysed125

Music-Poem Ⅲ(Chu Chih),analysed to illustrate one of the shortest forms of musical composition;its melody,rhythm and form analysed140

Music Poem Ⅳ(P？n I), analysed to show the basis of structure and ones in a larger composition;its melody,rhythm and form analysed145

Music Poem Ⅴ(Unitlted)with structure and onal superstructure entirely composed in the Sung dynasty;analysed to show the significance of scale notation,and the thematic structure and tonal superstructure in relation to the whole composition168

Music-Poems Ⅵ—Ⅸof the Sung dynasty,transcribed to show the use of modes,seven and nine tone scales172

PARTⅣ．—CONCLUSION181

CHAPTER Ⅸ．—THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ANCIENT ART181

CHAPTER Ⅹ．—REMARKS ON THE FUTURE OF CHINESE MUSIC197

APPENDICES210

Ⅰ．—Table of 36 Chinese phonetic elements according to the different tones of the scale and dynamic quality drawn up in the Liang Dynasty（502-534）210

Ⅱ．—Karlgren's arrangement of various phonems as to their natural difference in audibility210

Ⅲ．—Karlgren's arrangement of the phonetic elements as to higher and lower pitch values210

Ⅳ．—Example of purely Western instrumental composition and its basis of form as defined by Chinese symbols of structure212

BIBLIOGRAPHIES214

Works in European Languages214

Chinese works216

INDEX220