ABOUT THIS BOOK

Part One of Yuarn Music Dramas presents a detailed analysis of form and structure in Yuarn music drama, with sections on the act, the suite, the aria, the verse, metrics of repeated graph patterns, parallelism, and the matching of suite and mode. [vii]

Part Two presents the first catalogue of arias of its kind to be published in a language other than Chinese. It is a compilation of all of the arias in the northern dramatic style that are found in the 162 titles contained in the Yuarn-chyuu shyuann and the Yuarn-chyuu shyuaan waih-bian. It is modeled on several such catalogues compiled over the past six hundred years. [99]

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Now retired, Dale R. JOHNSON was Professor of Chinese and chair of East Asian Studies, Oberlin College.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Code to Symbols in Part One

Abbreviations

Part One: Form and Structure in Yuarn Music Drama

I. The Act

II. The Suite

III. The Aria

IV. The Structure of the Verse

V. Problems in Verse Analysis

VI. The Metrics of Repeated Graph Patterns

VII. Parallelism and Its Special Features

VIII. The Matching of Suite and Mode

Notes to Part One

Part Two: The Catalogue of Arias

Preface to the Catalogue of Arias

The Catalogue of Arias

Appendix 1: The Major Editions of Yuarn Music Dramas

Appendix 2: Master Index to Variant Editions of Yuarn Music Dramas

Appendix 3: Index to the Yuarn-chyuu shyuaan by Popular Title

Appendix 4: Romanization Conversion Table: Wade-Giles to Simplified National System

Index to Aria Titles and Alternate Titles

Chinese Character Index to Yuarn Aria Titles by First Character

Page Index to the Arias

Select Bibliography

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