Fengxuan Xuanpin

This handbook has 101 melodies, 34 with lyrics, 67 without.³ It was compiled by 朱厚爝 Zhu Houjiao, (Prince of the) Hui Region, central Honan province.⁴ Zhu's preface mentions his collecting his melodies from various schools.

For further information about Fengxuan Xuanpin see:

The Qinqu Jicheng preface by Zha Fuxi, giving background to the history and contents of Fengxuan Xuanpin.
My additional commentary
The Table of Contents, listing all the melodies, and adding links to those for which I have written commentary and/or translations of lyrics.
The 18 melodies that appear first in 1539, as listed below.

So far I have learned 10 of the 18 melodies that appear first in 1539, six without lyrics,⁵ four having lyrics:⁶

Yi Sa Jin (A Bit of Scattered Money [lyrics])
Wenjun Cao (Song of Wenjun)
- also called Feng Qiu Huang (A Male Phoenix Seeks his Mate)
Dao Yi Qu (Pounding Cloth Melody); only here
Zui Weng Yin (Old Toper's Chant)
Feng Lei Yin (Wind and Thunder)
Gujiao Xing (Going with Old Style Relations)
Kai Gu (3; Cherish Antiquity)
Yan Guo Hengyang (Wild Geese Traverse Hengyang)
Weibin Yin (Wei Riverbank Intonation)
Pei Lan (Fragrant Orchids)

For six of the 18 new melodies I have written out transcriptions but not yet finalized the rhythms.⁷ The first five are songs for which I have not worked out the vocal rhythms to my satisfaction (I did learn instrumental versions of #4 and #5). The last is instrumental, but has yet defied my efforts.

Yi Qiao Jin Lü (Going for Shoes under the Bridge)
Xue Chuang Ye Hua (Evening Talk by a Snowy Window)
Gui Geng (Return to the Plough); only here
Lou Shi Ming (Inscription on a Crude Dwelling)
Li Ling Si Han (Li Ling Thinks of Han)
Ji Qing Cao (Melody of Entrusting One's Emotions )

This leave two of the 18 new melodies not yet transcribed. Both are songs with previous settings of the same lyrics and having the same title:

Qian Chibi Fu; new music but same lyrics as 1515
Hou Chibi Fu; new music but same lyrics as 1515
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1. Fengxuan Xuanpin (or Feng Xuan Xuan Pin)
44734.148 風宣 Fengxuan: spread like the wind.
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2. Image from Fengxuan Xuanpin
In Folio One, p. 23: see QQJC III/19. Is this Zhu Houjiao himself? His students?
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3. Some of the melodies with lyrics are clearly songs, others seem to be instrumental pieces to which lyrics have been added.
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4. Hui Region
For this region of central Honan province see further.
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5. Instrumental melodies reconstructed from 1539
The instrumental melodies I have reconstructed (and recorded) comprise six of the seven such melodies that appear for the first time in 1539.
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6. "Qin songs" reconstructed from 1539
As for the eleven qin songs whose earliest version survives from here, I have learned only four. The other seven include a number that seem to me arguably instrumental melodies to which someone added lyrics. In some cases I learned the first version of these that does not have lyrics.
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7. I only consider a melody fully reconstructed if I can play the whole piece from memory.
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