Zeami (1363-1443), Japan's most celebrated actor and playwright, composed more than thirty of the finest plays of no drama. He also wrote a variety of texts on theater and performance that have, until now, been only partially available in English. ...
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Zeami (1363-1443), Japan's most celebrated actor and playwright, composed more than thirty of the finest plays of no drama. He also wrote a variety of texts on theater and performance that have, until now, been only partially available in English. Zeami: Performance Notes presents the full range of Zeami's critical thought on this subject, which focused on the aesthetic values of no and its antecedents, the techniques of playwriting, the place of allusion, the training of actors, the importance of patronage, and the relationship between performance and broader intellectual and critical concer
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Transmitting the Flower Through Effects and Attitudes; An Extract from Learning the Flower; Oral Instructions on Singing; A Mirror to the Flower; A Course to Attain the Flower; Figure Drawings of the Two Arts and the Three Modes; The Three Courses; Technical Specifications for Setting a Melody; A Collection of Jewels in Effect; An Effective Vision of Learning the Vocationof Fine Play in Performance; Five Ranks; Nine Ranks; Six Models; Pick Up a Jewel and Take the Flower in Hand; Articles on the Five Sorts of Singing
Five Sorts of SingingLearning the Profession; Traces of a Dream on a Single Sheet; The Flower in . . . Yet Doubling Back; Two Letters to Master Konparu; APPENDIX 1 Music, Dance, and Performance in Saragaku; APPENDIX 2 On the Manuscripts; APPENDIX 3: Zeami's Languages; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
