- Additional Authors
- Shaanxi Song and Dance Ensemble.
- Description
- 1 streaming video file (PAL) (61 min.) : sd., col.
- Summary
- Recreated music and dance for court banquet performances of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.). Based on the Dunhuang cave murals, historical records, pottery, dancing figurines, and classical literature. Includes: Melody for the universe (ensemble music); Lang Tao-sha (Waves clean sand), poem by Liu Yü-xi (female vocal solo); Happy rain the spring night, poem by Du Gong-bu (male vocal solo); Dance fresco: Watching bird and catching cicada, and missing family; Giants' dance (mask dance); Quarreling ducks, and Tiger grinding its teeth (percussion ensemble); Bai Zhu (white ramie) dance; Ta Ge (ensemble dance); farewell music.
- Subjects
- Note
- Videotaped in the People's Republic of China.
- Performed by the Shaanxi Song and Dance Ensemble from Xi'an, ancient capital of the Tang Dynasty of China.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Funding (note)
- Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDF 9365
- OCLC
- NYPY887020798-F
- Title
[Music and dance of the Tang Dynasty] [electronic resource]
- Imprint
[198-?]
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Funding
Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZIC 9-1383.
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- Added Author
Shaanxi Song and Dance Ensemble.
- Research Call Number
*MGZIDF 9365
*MGZIC 9-1383 (former)