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| "Zazen" for Orchestra | ||
| 作者 | Lambert, Jerell Akin |
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| 出版日期 | 1996 |
| 出版者 | The University of Texas at Austin |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.utexas.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Austin, TX, US [奧斯汀, 德克薩斯州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 博碩士論文=Thesis and Dissertation |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 學位類別 | D.M.A. |
| 校院名稱 | University of Texas |
| 系所名稱 | Musical Arts |
| 指導教授 | Grantham, Donald |
| 畢業年度 | 1996 |
| 關鍵詞 | MUSIC; ZAZEN |
| 摘要 | ZAZEN is a one-movement composition for orchestra approximately thirteen minutes in duration. Zazen is a Japanese term meaning "sitting meditation" (za-sitting; seated zen-meditation; concentration) and is the heart of the practice of Zen Buddhism, particularly the sect of Soto Zen, founded by Dogen Zenji, a monk who brought Zen (chan in Chinese) to Japan from China in 600 A.D. ZAZEN, the composition, was inspired by the composer's two-year residency as a student of Soto Zen at the San Francisco Zen Center which took place between August 1988 and August 1990. The piece is primarily concerned with depicting the early morning activities at Zen Center, from waking to the point at which the residents of the building (students and priests) are deep in meditation in the zendo, the Japanese term for "meditation hall". The main technique of composition employed in ZAZEN is that of continuous variation. The musical material consists of five integrated themes that undergo separate and combined developments within a continuous but sectional structure. The two main themes are entitled SANGHA and MONKEY MIND, respectively. Sangha is a Sanskrit term referring to the community of nuns and monks in a Buddhist monastery but in ZAZEN refers to the residents of Zen Center. Monkey mind is a term describing the agitated, grasping nature of the thoughts, feelings and perceptions of human consciousness. The remaining three themes are a sub-group of short musical ideas and correspond in name and treatment to three positions held by the composer while a student at Zen Center. These themes are titled CHIDEN, FUKUDO, and DOSHI/JIKO, respectively. The CHIDEN is responsible for maintenance of the various altars throughout Zen Center. The FUKUDO is a signalperson/timekeeper that announces the call to meditation by striking the han (a suspended slab of wood struck by a long-handled wooden mallet), and wakes up Zen Center's residents by running through the hallways ringing a handbell. Doshi means "priest" and his or her attendant is the jiko, the position held by the composer. The doshi and jiko make an early morning circuitous route to the various altars of Zen Center offering incense before morning meditation. A highlight of ZAZEN is the instrumental depiction of an "Enlightenment" experience where the meditator directly experiences the essential, absolute nature of form, understanding in a flash of realization that the Absolute and the Relative are two aspects of the same Reality. |
| 點閱次數 | 246 |
| 建檔日期 | 1998.04.28 |
| 更新日期 | 2016.04.13 |
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