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Michael Knight of the Asian Art explains the complicated role music played in the Royal Court, and music as entertainment for personal or group enjoyment.

A groundbreaking exhibition, Power and Glory was the first exhibition to focus on the full range of Ming dynasty (1368-1644) court arts. More than 200 treasures were on view, including gold and jade, paintings and porcelains, from China’s greatest museums, many never before seen outside of China. The works illustrated how this ancient dynasty surpassed the technology of its time to become a global leader in maritime power, mass production and artistic accomplishment.

Organized by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Palace Museum, the Nanjing Municipal Museum and the Shanghai Museum.

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00:00:01 Music would have played a complicated role because music was clearly a part of court ritual. The religion that was related to the state cult where heaven is the head of that cult,

00:00:11 kind of a god of that cult if you would. Music played a very important part in the rituals that went with that whole cult, that whole religion, if you will.

00:00:21 But there was also music as entertainment, so music being played for personal enjoyment like the Qin Zither, which is shown here, which was a musical instrument

00:00:30 that many people at all levels of society in China played, but that was something that was played for personal enjoyment or for enjoyment in small groups. So, there is music of varying kinds.

00:00:40 On view there are big large trumpets, metal trumpets, that would have been used for heraldic music, music that would have been used more for the state cult,

00:00:49 but there was also the Zither, or the Qin, which was clearly used for more personal enjoyment in small groups.