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This volume of nine essays draws together leading scholars in anthropology, social history, musicology, and ethnomusicology to address the roles and functions of music in the Chinese ritual context. How does music, one of a constellation of essential performative elements in almost all rituals, empower an officiant, legitimate an officeholder, create a heightened state of awareness, convey a message, or produce a magical outcome, a transition, a transformation? After an introduction by the volume editors, Bell Yung proposes a theoretical framework for dealing with Chinese ritual sound. A group of three essays focuses on the music for rituals that create political and social legitimacy followed by a second group of essays considering the music associated with rites of passage. Two essays then deal with the music accompanying rituals of propitiation. In all these cases, music is seen to play a critical role, if not the core of the ritual.

S18/0200 --- S18/0250 --- S11/0600 --- S12/0340 --- Music --- -Music --- -Rites and ceremonies --- -Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- China: Music and sports--Music and musical instruments --- China: Music and sports--Musical compositions --- China: Social sciences--Customs, etiquette --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Yili, Liji, Zhouli, Rites: general --- History and criticism --- Religious aspects --- Rites and ceremonies --- Religious aspects. --- History and criticism. --- -China: Music and sports--Music and musical instruments --- -Ritualism --- Ceremonies --- Music in worship --- Religion and music --- China --- Muziek -- China -- Religieuze aspecten --- Music -- China -- Religious aspects --- Musique -- Chine -- Aspects religieux --- Muziek -- China -- Geschiedenis en kritiek --- Music -- China -- History and criticism --- Musique -- Chine -- Histoire et critique --- Ritussen en ceremonien -- China --- Rites and ceremonies -- China --- Rites et cérémonies -- Chine --- 78.33.7