Suspended music: chime-bells in the culture of Bronze Age China

Contents

Introduction: Setting the Stage -- Pt. I. Rites, Technology, and Political Matrix. 1. Bells in a Bronze Age Culture. 2. Shape and Acoustic Properties of Chinese Musical Bells. 3. Chime-Bell Manufacture and Its Complications -- Pt. II. The History of Chinese Musical Bells. 4. Origins and Early Development. 5. Perfection and Decline -- Pt. III. Musical Performance and Musical Theory. 6. Playing the Bells. 7. The Tone Measurements and Their Interpretation. 8. Musical Theory through the Zeng Inscriptions. 9. Music Suspended: Tone Theory and Its Political Ramifications -- Appendix 1: Bibliographical List of Archaeological Sites -- Appendix 2: A Comprehensive, Typologically Arranged List of Chinese Musical Bells -- Appendix 3: Bells from the Zhou Peripheries -- Appendix 4: Tone Measurements.