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55. Celestial Air Defining Chushang Mode
- same as qiliang mode; (tighten 2nd/5th strings: 2 4 5 6 1 2 3) 		神品楚商意
Shenpin Chushang Yi 1

For more information see Modality in Early Ming Qin Tablature.2

See also the previous item, #54 Shenpin Qiliang Yi. There are no obvious differences between these two modes.

The only piece using this mode is #61 Chu Ge, though for some reason (or no reason) it was put at the end of the pieces in shangjiao mode.

This mode appears later by name only in 1670, which copies the version here. However, the melody is repeated in Taiyin Buyi (1557), where it is called Qiliang Yi Kao.

 
Original preface
None3

 
Music
One Section

(00.49) -- harmonics
(01.00) -- Modal prelude ends

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Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1. 神品楚商意 15473.xxx (Return)

2. See also Qin Tunings, Some Theoretical Concepts. (Return)

3. Although SQMP modal preludes have no prefaces, those in Zheyin (which all have identical music) do. However, Zheyin does not include a separate preface to the chushang modal prelude. (Return)

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