Commentary on Kongtong Yin in Xilutang Qintong is combined with that of #124 Kongtong Wen Dao. The title Kongtong Yin occurs, without commentary, as an unrelated melody in two later handbooks.²

 
Preface

Included with #124 Kongtong Wen Dao

 
Music: Three Sections

  1.
  2.
  3.
      harmonics
      end

 
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1 8334.1 kongtong. Name of mountain; Zhuangzi (who calls it 空同) says the Yellow Emperor discussed the Dao here. Name of mountains in Jiangxi, Gansu (several?) and Sichuan; island off Shandong. (Return)

2 See Zha Fuxi's index pp. 22/-/-. The two are 德音堂琴譜 Deyintang Qinpu (1691; QQJC, XII. p.492ff) and 徽言秘旨訂 Huiyan Mizhi Ding (1692; QQJC, X. p.253ff). In both it is an 8 section melody using standard tuning. (Return)

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