Meaning of qinpu | Babel Free

Definitions

Tablature score collections for the Chinese musical instrument, the guqin.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“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.”

“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).”

“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.”

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