Ancient Chinese Music Scores from the Tang and Song Dynasties Lost Overseas
Historical documents,Buddhist cave murals,sculptures,and unearthed artefacts vividly reflect the rich and diverse music and dance of ancient China.Unfortunately,we cannot hear these historical sounds in today's musical activities.The reasons for this are manifold,but the loss of ancient musical scores is undoubtedly a significant contributing factor to this"irreversible"situation.Although China was once the birthplace of ancient musical scores,these scores have gradually disappeared and flowed overseas,causing fundamental difficulties for contemporary research.This paper aims to trace and clarify the current status of major ancient musical scores from the Tang and Song dynasties that have been lost overseas.