Preface
Acknowledgements
1. How the Togaku repertory was acquired by the Japanese
and the processes of 'acculturation' that followed its acquisition Laurence Picken
2. In search of the music of pre-Nara Japan Laurence Picken, Noël Nickson and Okamoto Miyoko
3. 'Old Music', 'New Music', and other classificatory terms in the musical vocabularies of Late Nara and Heian, Japan Laurence Picken
4. Locational and functional names of notes in modal note-sets across Eurasia Laurence Picken and Noël Nickson
5. Modal note-sets and related matters in Ancient China
in Ancient and Modern India and Persia
in Ancient Greece Laurence Picken
6. The modal system of Togaku as a vestige of 28 mode-keys of the Tang inheritance: different modes with like finals
like modes with different finals Laurence Picken
7. Parallels in the organization of music in time in Indonesia, Ancient India and Ancient China Laurence Picken, Nicholas Gray and Robert Walker
Envoi
Cumulative bibliography.