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Cover -- Music, Mind, And Language In Chinese Poetry And Performance: The Voice Extended -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Chinese Dynastic Periods (broadly Divided For Purposes Of This Book) -- Note On Conventions -- Introduction: Creative Cycles Of The Extended Mind -- Principles: Song Is Musically Organized Speech -- Speech Is Grammatically Organized Music -- Principles: The Past Is A Foreign Country, But We Are All Homo Sapiens -- Principles: Digital Humanities And Quantitative Approaches -- Nine Modes Manual Online Concepts: The Predictive Processing Model Of The Mind -- Concepts: Maps And Territories, Fixation And Formula, Extended Mind Thesis -- Concepts: Memory, Chunking, Recoding, And Decoding -- Concepts: Grouping, Meter, And Stylistics Of Sameness, Contrast, And Naturalness -- Periodization -- C.6000 Bc-c.1200 Bc: The Prehistoric Period: Winnowing Standards -- C.1200 Bc-c.200 Ad: The Ancient Period: Orality, Memory, Sameness -- C.200 Ad-c.1200 Ad: The Medieval Period: Central Asian Influence, Court Music, Contrast C.1200 Ad-c.1900 Ad: The Late Imperial Period: Mandarin, Dramatic Music, Naturalness -- C.1900-: The Modern Period: Age Of The Piano -- 1: The Death Of Rhythm -- The Art Of Starting And Stopping: Grouping, Line Length, Sameness -- Rhythmic Grouping Of Non-standard Lines And Silent Syllables (jìngzì) -- Information-stressand An Ancient Iambic Metrical Standard Hypothesis -- World Languages And The Rhythms They Motivate -- Ancient Versus Medieval Disyllables, Particles Versus Exclamations, Ancient Double Rhyme -- The Lyrics Of Chǔ's Trisyllables, Yodeleme Hâi, And Poetic Eyes (shīyǎn) Grouping And Meter Of Medieval Equal Line Length Poems -- Medieval Music Bureau Poems And Filling Notes (fànshēng) -- The Dūnhuáng Lute Tablatures And Medieval Modal Rhythmic Cycles -- Breaking The Cycle: Grand Melody Remnants And Innovations In Late-medieval Lyrics -- Remolding (yıň Kuò), Enjambment, An