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Zangchunwu Qinpu
Zangchunwu Qin Handbook 1 |
藏春塢琴譜
1602 |
This handbook has 65 melodies in six folios. It was compiled by Hao Ning2 and other eunuchs at the court in Nanjing; Zangchunwu was a walled village near that city.3 At the front there are prefaces by Li Dai4 and Dong Futing5 dated 1602. At the end are afterwords by Yan Cheng6 (1602; not a eunuch, his music is compiled in Songxian Guan Qinpu, 1614) and Hao Ning again (undated).
The first three folios of this handbook have essays; folios 4 to 6 have the 65 melodies, three with lyrics. The melodies are said to have been collected by Hao Ning, Yan Cheng and Wang Ding'an.7 However, 51 of the 65 melodies are in fact identical to their versions in Yuwu Qinpu, a handbook compiled by Zhang Jinchao, a eunuch apparently in Beijing.8
Of the 14 melodies here that were not in Yuwu Qinpu, three (or four) appear here for the first time. The other 10 are versions of melodies found in other handbooks.9
The four titles said to be new are all attributed to Shen Taishao,10 as follows:
Later handbooks rarely mention Shen Taishao; because of that and because of the details given above with Xishan Qiu Yue one must consider the possibiity that the attributions to Shen suggest that these were his own versions or interpretations rather than his own compositions.
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a
separate page)
1.
藏春塢琴譜 Zangchunwu Qinpu
Included in QQJC, Volume VI
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2.
Hao Ning 郝寧
40293.xxx; Bio/xxx. In his preface to the first melody he calls himself 中州窺玄子 "A Henan Inquirer into Mysteries", while he signs his afterword "御用監左少監鄴郡郝寧 Left Vice Director of the Directorate for Imperial Accouterments Hao Ning of Yejun". His directorate was "responsible for preparing fine wood and ivory objects for the Emperor's use and for presenting memorials for imperial attention that were submitted by the officialdom" (Hucker). Yejun was in northern Henan.
In addition the preface by Li Dai refers to Hao Ning as 定安王常侍小川郝 while the afterword by Yan Cheng refers to him as 常侍定安王之小川郝公, i.e., he was either from or nicknamed Xiaochuan and was an Attendant-in-ordinary for the Prince of Ding'An (? NFI). Li Dai says he studied qin for over 20 years.
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4.
李戴 Li Dai
Bio/943: From Henan; 進士 jinshi degree in 1568
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5.
董復亭 Dong Futing
See QQJC, VII/287: he signs his comment with "鹿董復亭書於燕市之白雪館 Dong Futing of Lu wrote this in the White Snow Hall in Yan (Beijing)". 48561 鹿 lu (usual meaning "deer") gives this as a surname but not a place name; there is no Bio with a name beginning Lu Dong. Fu was written 彳憂; 亭 also written with an old form. 復亭 10422.60 gives this as a nickname for several people in Qing dynasty, none surnamed Dong.
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7.
王定安 Wang Ding'an
Bio/xxx
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8.
張近朝 Zhang Jinchao
There seems to be no mention of him or of 玉梧 Yuwu (apparently his nickname) anywhere in Zangchunwu Qinpu.
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9. Zha Fuxi's Preface says there are 66 melodies, but this is a mistake. And his Guide lists seven titles as new compositions, but at least three of these are not new:
The other four are the melodies attributed to
Shen Taishao, one of which
(溪山秋月 Qishan Qiu Yue; VI/354) had been published earlier under a different title.
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10.
沈太韶 Shen Taishao
Prefaces here say he was from 越 Yue (Zhejiang), 諱音 taboo name Yin (i.e., Shen Yin). Commentary in Qinshi Xu (included under that of
Yan Cheng) is translated in QSCB,
7a2 (p. 126).
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