Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Illustrations XI
4. List of Tables XXI
5. Acknowledgments XXIII
6. To the Reader XXV
7. Introduction: Setting the Stage 1
8. PART I: Rites, Technology, and Political Matrix
9. 1. Bells in a Bronze Age Culture 23
10. 2. Shape and Acoustic Properties of Chinese Musical Bells 67
11. 3. Chime-Bell Manufacture and Its Connotations 98
12. PART II: The History of Chinese Musical Bells
13. 4. Origins and Early Development 129
14. 5. Perfection and Decline 158
15. 6. Playing the Bells 199
16. 7. The Tone Measurements and Their Interpretation 226
17. 8. Musical Theory through the Zeng Inscriptions 280
18. 9. Music Suspended: Tone Theory and Its Political Ramifications 310
19. APPENDIX
20. 1. Bibliographical List of Archaeological Sites 325
21. 2. A Comprehensive, Typologically Arranged List of Chinese Musical Bells 349
22. 3. Bells from the Zhou Peripheries 374
23. 4. Tone Measurements 388
24. GLOSSARY 402
25. PLACE NAMES IN GEOGRAPHICAL ARRANGEMENT 406
26. BIBLIOGRAPHY 415
27. INDEX 463