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Fengxuan Xuanpin
Profound Airs Spread Like the Wind ¹

This handbook has 101 melodies, 34 with lyrics, 67 without.² It was compiled by 朱厚爝 Zhu Houjiao, (Prince of the) Hui Region, central Honan province. Zhu's preface mentions his collecting his melodies from various schools.

風宣玄品
1539

Page 3 of Fengxuan Xuanpin:
Burning incense and playing the qin
Is this Zhu Houjiao? His students?

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.
There are 18 melodies that appear first in Feng Xuan Xuan Pin. So far I have learned nine of these:³
Yi Sa Jin (A Bit of Scattered Money)
Wenjun Cao (Song of Wenjun);
- also called Feng Qiu Huang (A Male Phoenix Seeks his Mate)
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 seven of the 18 I have written out transcriptions but not yet finalized the rhythms.⁴ The first six are songs for which I have not worked out the vocal rhythms to my satisfaction (I did learn instrumental versions of 5 and 6). 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)
Dao Yi Qu (Beating Clothes Melody); only here
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 not yet transcribed, both songs with previous settings:

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. 44734.148 Fengxuan Spread like the wind
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2. Some are clearly songs, others seem to be instrumental pieces to which lyrics have been added.
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3. Comprising 9 of the 18 melodies whose earliest version survives from here: 6 of the 7 without lyrics and 3 of the 11 with lyrics.
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4. I only consider a melody fully reconstructed if I can play the whole piece from memory.
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