Fan bai = Chinese Buddhist monastic chants / Edited by Pi-yen Chen.

Format:

Musical score

Contributor:

Chen, Pi-Yen, editor.

Series:

Recent researches in the music of the oral traditions of music ; 8.

Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.

Recent researches in the oral traditions of music ; 8

Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhist chants--Scores.

Buddhist chants.

Buddhist music--China.

Buddhist music.

Genre:

Scores.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 score (x, 165 pages)) : illustrations, facsimiles + 18 audio files.

Other Title:

Chinese Buddhist monastic chants

Fanbai

Place of Publication:

Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2019.

Language Note:

Song texts in Chinese; commentary in English.

Staff notation.

System Details:

digital

audio file

MP3

Summary:

"Liturgical chants, the most pervasive traditional elements in religious life, provide a sense of historical continuity for Chinese Buddhists ... A common feature shared by all Chinese Buddhist liturgies is that their ritual process has no verbal command. Instead, instrumental cues and chanting style, which divide ritual passages and dictate actions, lead the participants as they engage in liturgical performance. Several types of liturgical books provide written guidelines for performing congregational Buddhist chants, but none includes melodic notation; rhythm and instrumental operations are the only prescribed musical elements. The melodies are thus conveyed from generation to generation through oral transmission, and this process greatly strengthens the sense of unity among Chinese Buddhists despite local and temporal variations in practice. This volume is intended to serve a broad audience: the general reader, Buddhist monastic members, Chinese Buddhists, music scholars, and Buddhist scholars. It presents Chinese Buddhist chants of various liturgies, styles, functions, and techniques in the course of three chapters. Chapter 1 provides fundamental information about the chant tradition, including early chant categories, contemporary liturgies, instruments, notation, performance, and modern conceptual transformations. Chapter 2 explicates the musical attributes and ritual functions of chants through a detailed commentary on nine contemporary stylistic forms of Chinese Buddhist liturgical chants. Chapter 3 explores the liturgy of the daily service in conjunction with a complete facsimile, demonstrating the liturgical logic and religious sentiment of Chinese Buddhism. Audio recordings that supplement the historical and analytical discussions are provided as MP3 files." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

History and background. Major categories of early Chinese Buddhist chants ; Liturgies of contemporary Chinese Buddhism ; Chant principles and techniques ; Monastic instruments and music notation ; Modern conceptions of Buddhist music

Categorization and analysis of musical styles. Free chant ; Prayer ; Dhāraṇi based on a precomposed melody ; Praises ; Gāthās

The Chinese Buddhist daily service. Editions of daily recitation books ; Structure and contents ; The morning service ; The evening service

Plates and transcriptions

Facsimile : complete liturgy of the daily service.

Digital audio files. Opening gāthā of Śūraṅgama Dhāraṇi

Complete main text of the morning service

Text of Worshipping Buddhas and penance

A prayer

Zhunti Dhāraṇi : from the Ritual of releasing the flaming mouths

Baoding zan = (Incense praise)

Hua fengxian : from the Precious penitential liturgy of the Emperor Liang

Gāthā of Washing the (statue of the) Buddha

Vowing gāthā of the great transference of merit

Yuanxiao sanzhang zhu fannao = (Gāthā of merit transference). Melody 1 ; Melody 2

Morning bell gāthā

Invocation of Amitābha Buddha : free-tune invocation

Antiphonal invocation of Bhaiṣajyaguru Buddha

Zhenuo miaoti : the slow mode of fanqiang

Fast mode of fanqiang : from the jianyan in the first division of Sanshi xinian

Mode of shuqiang : from the jianyan in the second division of Sanshi xinian

Mode of daoqiang : from the jianyan in the third division of Sanshi xinian.

Participant:

Principally performed by members of the Xiang guang Buddhist Temple and the Fo guang shan Monastery, both in Taiwan.

Notes:

Title "Fan bai" appears on cover in Chinese characters.

Includes historical information, musical analysis and transcriptions, and reproduction of the complete liturgy of the daily service (morning and evening services) in Chinese characters with instrumental notation.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-165) and glossary (pages 158-162).

Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed April 9, 2019).

OCLC:

1099518677

Publisher Number:

OT008 A-R Editions, Inc. (score)

OT008-CD A-R Editions, Inc. (audio files)