Zeami: Performance Notes

Translated by Tom Hare

April, 2008
Cloth, 528 pages, 28 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13958-8
$45.00 / £26.50

Preface

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 Vocation of 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 Singing

Learning 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 Sarugaku

Appendix 2. On the Manuscripts

Appendix 3. Zeami's Languages

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature
• Drama

Series

• Translations from the Asian Classics

About the Author

Tom Hare is William Sauter LaPorte `28 Professor of Regional Studies in the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His most recent books include Zeami's Style: The Noh Plays of Zeami Motokiyo and ReMembering Osiris: Number, Gender, and the Word in Ancient Egyptian Representational Systems.

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