Instrumental Music of Wutaishan's Buddhist Monasteries

Beth Szczepanski examines how traditional and modern elements interact in the current practice reception and functions of wind music or shengguan at monasteries in Wutaishan one of China's four holy mountains of Buddhism. The book provides an invaluable insight into the political and economic history of Wutaishan and its music as well as the instrumentation notation repertoires transmission and ritual function of monastic music at Wutaishan and how that music has adapted to China's current economic political and religious climate.