12 Chapters Of TroPhur – Work in Progress

The data set presented here is also published on RADAR4Culture; DOI: 10.22000/h0zvh4v9bgspsxca

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More information (and detailed discussion) on the material presented here is available in:

Strothman, Christiane. Learning from a Monastic Musician: Masters of Chant and the Function of Ritual Music in the Tibetan Yungdrung Bön Tradition. Dissertation Folkwang Universität der Künste. (Musik und Religion, Band 2). Baden-Baden: Tectum, 2024.

Strothman, Christiane.“Tropur – Insights into a Protection Ritual of the Tibetan Bön Tradition.“ In: Andreas Meyer und Dominik Höink (Hrsg.): Music and Religion. (Musik und Religion, Band 1). Marburg: Tectum, 2024.

Bönpo neums were originally made available to English-speaking academics by Ricardo Canzio:

Canzio, Ricardo. “Decoding Bönpo Liturgical Manuscripts,” in Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books: Elaborations, edited by Matthew T. Kapstein, 124–134. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024.

Canzio, Ricardo O. “Extending to All Beings the Far-Reaching Arm of Liberation: Bonpo Texts in the Manner of Commencing the Practice of the Outer, Inner and Secret Teachings.” In Indo-Tibetan Studies: Papers in Honour and Appreciation of Professor David L. Snellgrove’s Contribution to Indo-Tibetan Studies, edited by Tadeusz Skorupski, 55–65. Tring (U.K.): Institute of Buddhist Studies, 1990.

Another recording of the Chant to Midü (from the ritual Protectors of Bön, Chapter 2.1) was made by Ricardo Canzio:

Canzio, Ricardo O. Tibet: Traditions rituelles des Bonpos [recordings of the author from March 1981 and April 1983]. Extended edition of: Les traditions rituelles des Bonpos tibétains, Festival de Lille / OCOR Radio France, LP 30cm/33t 558622 (1982). 1 CD OCORA-Radio France C 580016, 1991.

Legend

green font: syllables belonging to ritual text
red font: syllables marked in red in the original manuscript, presumably to indicate the beginning of a phrase or a performative irregularity.
light blue/violet font: inserted syllables that repeat the final letter of the previous syllable.
black font (big): inserted syllables (no further explanation found yet).

black font (small): Bönpo neums (also referred to in literature as melodic units, melodic types, melodic patterns)

Indices below phrases refer to page_line_phrase in the manuscript.

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