PART Ⅰ．—THE ORIGIN OF THE ART 3
INTRODUCTION．—LANGUAGE AND MELODY 3
CHAPTER Ⅰ．—THE MUSIC OF THE CHINESE LANGUAGE 10
CHAPTER Ⅱ．—THE BASIS OF MUSICAL COMPOSITION 19
PART Ⅱ．—THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ART 47
CHAPTER Ⅲ．—THE ART OF MUSICAL COMPOSITION 47
CHAPTER Ⅳ．—SCALE STRUCTURE 63
CHAPTER Ⅴ．—PARALLELS BETWEEN THE NEUMES OF CHINA AND EUROPE 81
PART Ⅲ．—ANALYSES OF COMPOSITIONS OF HIGHEST DEVELOPMENT 89
CHAPTER Ⅵ．—NOTATION 89
CHAPTER Ⅶ．—METHOD OF STUDY 97
CHAPTER Ⅷ．—MUSIC-POEMS AND MELODIES OF HIGHEST DEVELOPMENT.THEIR TRANSCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS 104
Music-Poems composed in the T'ang and Sung dynasties with tonal superstructure added in the Ch'ing dynasty:Music-Poem I(Untitled),analysed to show the strict application of tones upon neumes;the basis of melody,rhythm and form analysed 104
Music-Poem Ⅱ(Tan Kuei),analysed to demon-strate the general application of tones to neumes;its melody,rhythm and form analysed 125
Music-Poem Ⅲ(Chu Chih),analysed to illustrate one of the shortest forms of musical composition;its melody,rhythm and form analysed 140
Music Poem Ⅳ(P？n I), analysed to show the basis of structure and ones in a larger composition;its melody,rhythm and form analysed 145
Music Poem Ⅴ(Unitlted)with structure and onal superstructure entirely composed in the Sung dynasty;analysed to show the significance of scale notation,and the thematic structure and tonal superstructure in relation to the whole composition 168
Music-Poems Ⅵ—Ⅸof the Sung dynasty,transcribed to show the use of modes,seven and nine tone scales 172
PARTⅣ．—CONCLUSION 181
CHAPTER Ⅸ．—THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ANCIENT ART 181
CHAPTER Ⅹ．—REMARKS ON THE FUTURE OF CHINESE MUSIC 197
APPENDICES 210
Ⅰ．—Table of 36 Chinese phonetic elements according to the different tones of the scale and dynamic quality drawn up in the Liang Dynasty（502-534） 210
Ⅱ．—Karlgren's arrangement of various phonems as to their natural difference in audibility 210
Ⅲ．—Karlgren's arrangement of the phonetic elements as to higher and lower pitch values 210
Ⅳ．—Example of purely Western instrumental composition and its basis of form as defined by Chinese symbols of structure 212
BIBLIOGRAPHIES 214
Works in European Languages 214
Chinese works 216
INDEX 220