Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Koguryo instruments in Tomb No. 1 at Ch'ang-ch'uan, Manchuria
- Shakuhachi honkyoku notation: written sources in an oral tradition
- The world of a single sound: basic structure of the music of the Japanese flute shakuhachi
- A report on Chinese research into the Dunhuang music manuscripts
- Where did Toragaku come from?
- Musico-religious implications of some Buddhist views of sound and music in the Śūraṅgama Sūtra
- Composition and improvisation in Satsuma biwa
- Glossary of Chinese, Japanese and Korean terms
- Contributors to this volume
- Notes for authors
Koguryo instruments in Tomb No. 1 at Ch'ang-ch'uan, Manchuria
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Koguryo instruments in Tomb No. 1 at Ch'ang-ch'uan, Manchuria
- Shakuhachi honkyoku notation: written sources in an oral tradition
- The world of a single sound: basic structure of the music of the Japanese flute shakuhachi
- A report on Chinese research into the Dunhuang music manuscripts
- Where did Toragaku come from?
- Musico-religious implications of some Buddhist views of sound and music in the Śūraṅgama Sūtra
- Composition and improvisation in Satsuma biwa
- Glossary of Chinese, Japanese and Korean terms
- Contributors to this volume
- Notes for authors
Summary
This paper investigates paintings of musical instruments contained in a fifth century Koguryŏ tomb at Ch'ang ch'uan. A report on the tomb prepared by Chinese local government officials is critically examined and more extensive examination of the evidence is undertaken in the light of Chinese and Korean literary sources and of recent archeological evidence from other Koguryŏ tomb excavations.
Introduction
In August 1970, the Chinese government repaired an ancient Koguryŏ tomb near the mid-Yalu riverside at Ch'ang-ch'uan, Chi-an Prefecture of Chi-lin Province, Manchuria. A general report on this ancient tomb, called Tomb No.1 at Ch'ang-ch'uan, was published in 1982 in a Chinese archeological journal, Tung-pei k'ao-ku yü li-shih(Chi-an-hsien wen-wu pao-kuan-so 1982), by government officials of Chi-an Prefecture. Tomb No.1 is located about 20 kilometers northeast of Chi-an Town, Chi-lin Province. According to the general report, it is believed to have been constructed by Koguryŏ people around the late fifth century.
The murals of Tomb No.1 at Ch'ang-ch'uan contain ten examples of musical instruments, including new instruments previously undiscovered in Koguryŏ tomb excavations. Of the ten instruments, all of which are depicted in the front room of the tomb, seven appear in the ceiling paintings and three in wall paintings. The general report on Tomb No.1 at Ch'ang-ch'uan gives only simple descriptions and commentaries on the musical instruments, but even these contain probable errors. This paper is an attempt to correct those mistakes and to provide a more extensive examination of the evidence in the light of recent archeological evidence from other Koguryŏ tomb excavations.
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- Musica Asiatica , pp. 1 - 17Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991