Atsumori - Noh Performance Guide 5

Monica Bethe, Richard Emmert, Karen Brazeli

Shôbunsha

1995

93 páginas

3h 6m

ISBN-8: 09176187

A noh performance is a multi-leveled experience. The traditional audience has an intimate knowledge of performance practice as well as texts. This booklet is an attempt to make some of that information available to the English reader.
The main body of the guide is divided into three subsections which run parallel to each other. First, the left hand pages provide the TEXT in Japanese script with a romanization and English equivalents. Movement indications appear to the right of the text. Second, the right hand pages present, in the upper portion, a TRANSLATION, and, third, in th lower portion, a DESCRIPTION of shôdan, the basic structural building blocks. Description NOTES appear scattered throughout the book.