Album

Taoist Priests of Hsinchu
Chinese Taoist Music (Musica Taoista Cinese)
World / China
1979 - Albatros - VPA 8442


1. Funeral Rite with Cymbals

03:05

2. Funeral Rite Continued

02:34

3. Exorcist Rite

02:06

4. Tao Ch'anq: "By Burning Incense May All Return to the All-Highest"

03:42

5. Tao Ch'anq: Shu Wen, Reading of Document Stating Purpose, Place, Date, Etc., of the Chiao

01:52

6. Tao Ch'anq: Threefold Invitation to the Heavenly Teachers, and Sounding of the Ritual Drum

06:23

7. Tao Ch'anq: Offering of Tea and Incense to Lao Tzu, With Dance

01:45

8. At a Three-Day Chiao: First Day, Ch'lnq Shen Ritual, Inviting the Spirits

03:19

9. Hymns for Purifying Water

03:17

10. Incantations for Purifying the Mind

02:11

11. Chiao: Pu Hsu, Meditation

04:25

12. Chiao: Flower Offering, a Short Passage from the End

03:54

13. Ballad of the Skeletons

03:11

14. Communal Exorcist Rite, Ta Wang Hang: Preparing the Boat that Will Carry Away the Demons of Infectious Disease

03:40

15. Communal Exorcist Rite, Ta Wang Hang: The Launching of the Boat

01:41