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Songxianguan Qinpu
Qin Handbook of Pine String Hall 1		 松絃館琴譜
1614

This is said to be the earliest book of the Yushan qin school.2 It has 29 melodies plus two more in an appendix. Only the last item in the appendix, the Buddhist chant Pu'an Zhou, has lyrics, and these are placed in front of the tablature, not alongside it.

In preparation for a conference in Suzhou, September 2002, in honor of Yan Cheng,3 founder of the school, I learned three melodies directly from this handbook.

08. Zhongqiu Yue: Mid-autumn Moon
      - first of four handbooks to 1722
09. Qiujiang Yebo: Autumn River Night Anchorage
      - Yan Cheng's revision of the Shen Qi Mi Pu Melody Yin De.
15. Liangxiao Yin: Peaceful Evening Prelude
      - the first first of 31 handbooks to 1914, but a revision of a Cangwu Yin.  
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1 14897.xx; QQJC VIII, pp. 69 - 166 (Return)

2 虞山 Yu Shan (Mount Yu) looks over the city of 常熟 Changshu, north of Suzhou in Jiangsu province. The second important handbook of this school was apparently Dahuange Qinpu. (Return)

3 嚴澂 Yan Cheng, also known as 嚴天池 Yan Tianchi. (Return)

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