A Study of Music Tonal Name in Excavated Music Manuscripts
The terminology in the newly excavated music manuscripts has unique significance,which needs to be studied comprehensively in the context of various disciplines.The qualifiers,such as"shang"(上)and"xia"(下),"da"(大)and"xiao"(小),and"qian"(遣)and"fan"(反),related to the characteristics of different musical instruments,have significance within their respective contextual dimensions,and can not be compared horizontally.For this reason,the method of applying exegesis or homophone to interpret such texts is of limited effect.In order to facilitate the recording and singing of music,the ancients assigned unique single-character names to the seven notes of the scale across different octaves.However,different states and regions may use different terms,and the phonemes they represent may not be consistent.It is worth making any attempt to speculate the early music scores based on late materials.Meanwhile,for some suspended instruments,it is important to pay attention to the positional information in their inscriptions.
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