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Qinxue Congshu
Great Compendium of Qin Studies 1
琴學叢書
1910

Qinxue Congshu is an encyclopaedia of the qin, with numerous essays and melodies in tablature. The compiler was Yang Zongji.3

The available facsimile edition of Qinxue Congshu has 43 卷 folios bound in 14 冊 booklets; these are further arranged into two 函 cases. I made the following table of contents to help me locate references that were not in the Qinxue Congshu published by Tong Kin-Woon in his Qin Fu; that edition is missing Folios 25 - 43. Further details will be added as I need them for reference.

 
Table of Contents for Qinxue Congshu

    函一 Case One

    冊一 Booklet One
    QF 728

  1. 琴粹一
    QF 729; begins
    Qin Cao of Cai Yong

  2. 琴粹二
    QF 746; rest of
    Qin Cao of Cai Yong

  3. 琴粹三
    QF 753; 幽蘭原譜等 (
    You Lan original tablature, etc.)

  4. 琴粹四
    QF 761; 古琴考

     
    冊二 Booklet 2
    QF 776

  5. 琴話卷一
    QF 777ff

  6. 琴話卷二
    QF 790ff

  7. 琴話卷三
    QF 801ff

  8. 琴話卷四
    QF 814

     
    冊三 Booklet 3
    QF 826

  9. 琴譜一
    QF 829; 幽蘭古指法解、減字譜等

  10. 琴譜二
    QF 838; 幽蘭雙行譜

  11. 琴譜三
    QF 852; 流水

     
    冊四 Booklet 4
    QF 858

  12. 琴學隨筆一
    QF 859

  13. 琴學隨筆二
    QF 873

     
    冊五 Booklet 5
    QF 888

  14. 琴餘漫錄一
    QF 889

  15. 琴餘漫錄二
    QF 903

     
    冊六 Booklet 6 Tablature in Qin Jing (expand)            
    QF 921 (From here through p. 1147 Mirror on the Qin [琴鏡 Qin Jing], in 9 sections, has 17 melodies written together with a special system that indicates rhythm, as at right. In this system there are three extra lines going along with the tablature. The first line has either the lyrics or the names of the relative pitch; the second line marks the beat [sometimes this is omitted, presumably where the music is particularly free]; the third line shows specifically what the hand is doing when the lyric or note occurs; the fourth has the actual tablature.)

    The Continuation of Qin Jing (Booklet 13, below), has four more melodies using this system.

  16. 琴鏡一 Qin Jing I; tablature for
    QF 932: 鹿鳴操
    Lu Ming Cao (1744; recording)
    QF 934: 伐檀 Fa Tan (1744; recording)
    QF 936: 秋聲賦 Qiu Sheng Fu (1802)
    QF 942: 歸去來辭 Gui Qu Laici (from a handcopy)

  17. 琴鏡二 Qin Jing II; tablature for
    QF 946: 漁樵問答
    Yu Qiao Wenda (Yang Baoyuan transcription in GQQJ 2 but no recording; from a handcopy)
    QF 956: 平沙落雁 Pingsha Luo Yan (Guan Pinghu recording and transcription in GQQJ 1; from a handcopy)
    QF 961: 四大景 Si Da Jing (the Guan Pinghu version in GQQJ 1 said to be of this seems actually to be an extract; from a handcopy)
    QF 968: 梅花三弄 Meihua Sannong ("琴簫合譜刻本 Qin Xiao Hepu Keben", i.e., from a handbook for qin and xiao duets, but it does not have a separate part for xiao)

  18. 琴鏡三 Qin Jing III; tablature for
    QF 977: 水仙操
    Shui Xian Cao (1802)
    QF 986: 漁歌 Yu Ge (1802)

     
    冊七 Booklet 7
     

  19. 琴鏡四 Qin Jing IV; tablature for
    QF 1001: 瀟湘水雲
    Xiao Xiang Shui Yun (1802)
    QF 1013: 廣陵散 Guangling San (1868)
    QF 1021: 陽關三疊 Yangguan Sandie (1864)

  20. 琴鏡五 Qin Jing V; tablature for
    QF 1024: 風雷引
    Feng Lei Yin (1802)
    QF 1032: 流水 Liu Shui ("俗名七十二滾拂流水曲 commonly called the 72 gunfu Liu Shui melody"; 1876)
    QF 1041: 烏夜啼 Wu Ye Ti (1802)

  21. 琴鏡六 Qin Jing VI; tablature for
    QF 1050: 秋鴻
    Qiu Hong (1722)

     
    函二 Case Two

     
    冊八 Booklet 8

  22. 琴鏡七
    QF 1075; tablature for 羽化登仙 Yuhua Deng Xian.

  23. 琴鏡八
    QF 1096; tablature for 蒼江夜雨 Cangjiang Ye Yu, 樵歌 Qiao Ge.

  24. 琴鏡九
    QF 1120 - 1147; tablature for 幽蘭 You Lan, 離騷 Li Sao.

     
    冊九 Booklet 9
    Not in QF

  25. 琴鏡補一
    指法、上絃法、調絃法

  26. 琴鏡補二
    填詞古譜一曲

  27. 琴鏡補三
    填詞古譜一曲、自製填詞新譜一曲

     
    冊十 Booklet 10
    Not in QF

  28. 琴瑟合譜一
    例言、律呂制度圖表

  29. 琴瑟合譜二
    Tablature for 七月 Qi Yue.

  30. 琴瑟合譜三
    Tablature for 七月 Qi Yue (again), 鹿鳴 Lu Ming, 伐檀 Fa Tan.

     
    冊十一 Booklet 11
    Not in QF

  31. 琴學問答、琴師傳、瑟譜書後、彈琴詩

  32. 藏琴錄

     
    冊十二 Booklet 12
    Not in QF

  33. 琴瑟新譜一

  34. 琴瑟新譜二

  35. 琴瑟新譜三

  36. 琴瑟新譜四

     
    冊十三 Booklet 13
    Not in QF (compare
    Booklet 6 above)

  37. 琴鏡續一 Continuation of Mirror of the Qin (Qin Jing Xu)
    廣陵散
    Guangling San from Fengxuan Xuanpin, with rhythmic indications

  38. 琴鏡續二
    簫韶九成
    Xiaoshao Jiucheng from Zangchunwu Qinpu, with rhythmic indications

  39. 琴鏡續三
    長清、短清
    Chang Qing and Duan Qing from Shen Qi Mi Pu, with rhythmic indications

  40. 琴鏡續四

     
    冊十四 Booklet 14
    Not in QF

  41. 琴鏡釋疑

  42. 幽蘭和聲

  43. 聲律通改詳節
 
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1. 琴學叢書 Qinxue Congshu
Available in facsimile edition, Tong Kin-Woon's Qin Fu and the 2010 edition of Qinqu Jicheng.
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3. 楊宗稷 Yang Zongji
Better known as 楊時百 Yang Shibai. Discussed in Qinshi Chubian together with Huang Mianzhi, etc.
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