琴音
弦之音
日本與中國的宮廷樂、寺院笛聲、琴箏與戲曲：178 段歷史錄音與田野錄音，皆為公有領域或創用 CC 授權，並附來源與授權。按下播放，繼續瀏覽，音樂會一路相隨。
今日一曲
每天從整個目錄中選出一段不同的錄音。
編輯精選
- 箏曲演奏会（1966年）第一部Sōkyoku ensōkai, 1966 — side A — A concert of Japanese koto music, 1966 — side A26:20
- 平沙落雁Píng shā luò yàn — Wild Geese Descending on the Sandbank4:45
- 賣馬Mài mǎ — Selling the Horse4:32
- 太食調調子Taishikichō chōshi — Prelude in the taishiki mode3:11
- 岩清水Iwashimizu — Water Welling from the Rock6:04
- 贵妃醉酒：海岛冰轮初转腾Guìfēi zuì jiǔ: Hǎidǎo bīnglún chū zhuǎn téng — The Drunken Concubine: “The icy moon rises over the sea”3:25
- 流水樂團音樂會（1972年）The Flowing Stream Ensemble in concert, 19721:11:21
- 思川Omoigawa — River of Memory14:35
選輯
箏と尺八Strings and Bamboo: Japanese Chamber Music
Koto and shakuhachi are the two voices most people now associate with Japanese traditional music, and they began in very different places. The koto was the domain of the blind musicians' guilds of the Edo period, who taught it as a refined chamber art for the parlour. The shakuhachi belonged to wandering Fuke Zen monks, who played it as a breathing discipline. By the Meiji era the two had met, with the shamisen, in the ensemble music called sankyoku.
梨園之聲Voices of the Pear Garden: Peking Opera on Early Records
The 'Pear Garden' is the old name for the Chinese theatre world, after the troupe kept by the Tang emperor Xuanzong. Peking opera came of age at the same moment as the gramophone, and its stars were recorded almost as soon as discs reached Shanghai. Collectors still argue over these sides line by line.
最初の録音・最早的錄音First Recordings
The oldest sounds in the catalogue, from wax cylinders and early discs, in roughly the order they were made. A German sinologist's cylinder from the late 1800s preserves a chanted reading of Tao Yuanming's 'Returning Home', a rare trace of how classical poetry was voiced.
文人之琴The Scholar's Qin
For two thousand years the seven-string qin was the instrument of the educated gentleman: played alone or for a friend, in a study or a garden, rarely for an audience. Its pieces are written in a tablature that records fingering rather than rhythm, so every player rebuilds them from old handbooks.
廟埕Temple Courtyards of Taiwan
In Taiwan, the square in front of a temple is a stage. Opera troupes, puppet companies and gong-and-drum bands perform there as offerings to the god, and passers-by are welcome to stop and listen.