qinpu

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 琴譜／琴谱 (qínpǔ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɪnˈpuː/

Noun

qinpu pl (plural only)

1. Tablature score collections for the Chinese musical instrument, the guqin.
   • 1993, Experimental Musical Instruments, volume 9, page 17:

     In qin music the pervasive mood/mode (when one can be said to be at the fore) is the autumn/shang correlation, and in many qinpu (collections of qin notations), pieces in shang are the most numerous.

   • 1994, Yip Mingmei, “Review (L'art du qin by Georges Goormaghtigh)”, in Journal of the Society for Asian Music, volume 25, University of Texas Press, page 243:

     A qin handbook is called qinpu in Chinese, which means literally qin tablature. Beginning from the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), many qinpu were printed after prince Zhu Chuan edited and printed the first qinpu, Shenqi Mipu (The Wonderful Esoteric Tablature).

   • 1996, William Duckworth, Sound and Light: La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, page 144:

     As we look back into the early collections of qin notations, known as qinpu, we find an interesting collection of pictures in the pedagogical sections of several important qinpu.

Translations

score collections for the guqin

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 琴譜／琴谱 (zh) (qínpǔ)

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