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Qinshu Daquan Table of Contents
Published in 1590 by Jiang Keqian 1		 琴書大全目錄
蔣克謙輯

Opening (V.1-18)

蕭大亨 Xiao Daheng preface
蔣克謙 Jiang Kejian preface
Qinshu Daquan Table of contents

Folio 1   序琴 Introducing the Qin (V.18-27)

(16 essays from a variety of early sources)

Folio 2   聲律上 Qin Music Theory, Part 1 (V.27-62)

(25 entries; #16 [p. 37] is Chen Minzi, Qinlü Fawei)

Folio 3   聲律下 Qin Music Theory, Part 2 (V.62-85)

(29 entries)

Folio 4   琴製 Qin Construction (V.85-102)

(50 entries)

Folio 5   琴式 Qin Shapes (V.102-128)

(125 entries; almost all the first 65 have illustrations;
includes 胡琴 huqin and other "folk" instruments; some mention only the name)

Folio 6   琴徽 Qin Studs (V.128-141)

(11 entries on positioning and theory)

Folio 7   琴絃 Qin Strings (V.141-149)

(41 entries on background, tuning and manufacture; some is from Taiyin Daquanji, Folio 1B.)

Folio 8   指法 Fingering (V.149-177)

(13 entries collecting important old explanations of qin tablature;
#5: by 陳居士 Chen Jushi [Chen Kangshi? 陳拙 Chen Zhuo is #12 below]
#6: by 楊祖雲 Yang Zuyun
#7: by 成玉石間 Cheng Yujian
#13: by 陳拙 Chen Zhuo; pp. V. 160-177!)

Folio 9   指法手勢圖 Illustrated Fingering (V.177-195)

(37 entries; includes finger names, putting on strings, symbolic representations)

Folio 10 彈琴 Playing the Qin (V.195-211)

(42 entries on different aspects of playing)
#27 has Qi Song, Xue Yijian, Liu Ji and Zhao Xikuang, Lun Tan Qin
#31 is Cheng Yujian's Qin Lun (see QSCB, 6.C.); (pp. 204 - 7)
#42 begins a section called 琴事 Qin Matters (pp. 208 - 210)
#43 is called 琴舞 Qin Wu (Qin and Dance; p.208)

Folio 11 曲調上 Melodies, Part 1 (V.211-247)

(87 entries; first 18 are general essays
#19: 琴操 Qin Cao [V.223; not the famous one]
#21-87: titled melodies with explanations and lyrics from a variety of sources)

Folio 12 曲調下 Melodies, Part 2 (V.247-277)

(82 entries: titled melodies as in Folio 11)

Folio 13 曲調拾遺 Melody Addenda (V.277-295)

(The ToC has 9 entries for this folio, but that is confusing. The first half seems to be five collections of lyrics for melodies; the second half is lists of melody titles; many were already discussed in Folios 11 and 12.)

Folio 14 歷代彈琴聖賢上 Virtuous Qin Players in History, Part 1 (V.295-321)
              - Folio 15 and 16 include 201 biographical entries. This includes
                all 146 from Qin Shi (mostly identical), 12 from Qin Shi Bu (not identical), and 42 furher.

(115 Biographical essays, 91 from Qin Shi, 8 from Qinshi Bu)

Folio 15 歷代彈琴聖賢下 Virtuous Qin Players in History, Part 2 (V.321-344)

(86 further biographical essays, 56 from Qin Shi [one is split in two], 4 from Qinshi Bu.
It ends with the categories Immortals, Daoists, Monks, and Ladies.)

Folio 16 記載 Written Records (V.344-372)

(66 literary records that mention the qin)

Folio 17 雜錄 Miscellaneous Accounts (V.372-386)

(58 entries/fables + a 琴諭 Qin Proclamation [?])

Folio 18 琴文 Qin Writings (V.386-416)

This section has 85 entries; it includes both prose and poetry:

01-28 Rhapsodies (賦 Fu)
29       Ode (頌 Song)
30-44 Praise (贊 Zan)
45-60 Inscriptions (銘 Ming)
61-65 Miscellaneous?
66-78 Prefaces (序 Xu)
79-81 Records (記 Ji)
82       Chronicle (志 Zhi)
83       Biography (傳 Zhuan)
84       Proclamation (諭 Yu)
85       (?) (蒿木後 Gao Hou)

Folio 19 詩上 Poems, Part 1 (V.416-442)

詠琴六十六首 66 Declamations on the Qin (I count only 64; V.416-422)
聽琴一百六十三 163 Poems about Listening to a Qin (V.422-441)

Folio 20 詩下 Poems, Part 2 (V.442-467)

彈琴七十九首 79 Poems about Playing a Qin
雜詠一百五十二首 152 Poems with Miscellaneous Narration
Two commentaries on the poems:
評古琴詩 Analysis of Old Qin poems (V.465)
評古今琴詩 Analysis of Qin Poems Old and New (V.466)

Folio 21 琴譜 Qin Tablature (V.467-502)

附言 Attached commentary by 蔣克謙 Jiang Keqian (V.467)Attached comments
Melody List (for Folios 21 and 22)
(35 melodies in gong, shang and zhi modes)

Folio 22 琴譜 Qin Tablature (V.502-531)

(27 melodies in other modes)

End (V.531-532)

趙鵬程跋 Afterword by Zhao Pengcheng

 
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1 Further information in the Preface. (V....) refers to page numbers in Vol. V of Qinqu Jicheng. (Return)

 
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