Kanze School Revised Song Book - Kanze School Revised Song Book

...By the end of the Edo period, there were approximately 2,000 Noh books published, of which about 80% were Kanze-style books. With a few exceptions, the scores in these books all omitted detailed notations, making it necessary to supplement them with books in the teacher's collection. However, in 1908, Maruoka Katsura published the Kanze-ryu Revised Noh Book, which completely eliminated the previous defects, and there was a trend toward books that could be sung immediately after looking at them. The notation was also improved, and notes, explanations, musical styles, costumes, and forms were added. Among the current Noh books, the Kanze-ryu Taiseiban (No. 205), which aimed to unify the school, the Hosho-ryu Reference Noh Book (No. 180), which printed the jibyōshi (basic rhythms), and the Kita-ryu New Complete Noh Book (No. 170), which has been improved many times, are excellent....

*Some of the terminology used in the "Kanze-ryu Revised Noh Book" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…幕末までに刊行された謡本は約2000種を数えるが，その約8割は観世流本である。これらの本の譜は，特殊な例外を除くと，みな細かい符号が省かれており，師匠の蔵本で補う必要があったが，1908年丸岡桂が刊行した〈観世流改訂謡本〉が旧来の不備を一新し，見てすぐ謡える譜本という傾向になり，記譜法にも改良が加わって，解題，辞解，曲趣，扮装，型付などを添えるようになった。現行謡本では，流内の統一を企図した〈観世流大成版〉(205番)，地拍子を印刷した〈宝生流参考謡本〉(180番)，改良を重ねた〈喜多流新全曲謡本〉(170番)などがすぐれている。…

※「観世流改訂謡本」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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