Zeami – Performance Notes: Translations from the Asian Classics

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