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Xilutang Qintong
Qin Anthology of the Hall in the Western Foothills 1
Compiled by Wang Zhi2 		西麓堂琴統
1525 (not 1549)
Is this Wang Zhi himself?3    

Xilutang Qintong has 170 melodies,4 19 with lyrics.5 For further information see:

 
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1. Qin System from the Hall in the Western Foothills (西麓堂琴統 Xilutang Qintong
35587.845 西麓 Western foothills; various nicknames. The book was compiled by 汪芝 Wang Zhi of 歙縣 She county in Anhui province. "Qintong" seems to refer to the musical analysis placed at the front of the book. However, little effort seems to have been made to connect the actual melodies in the handbook with this theoretical system.
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2. 汪芝 Wang Zhi
See further details
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3. Illustration from Xilutang Qintong
See QQJC III/58 and compare the image at the top of this page.
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4. 170 melodies
See further details on their sources.
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5. Lyrics in Xilutang Qintong
Some melodies have lyrics in only one or two sections. I do not know of any other handbooks that do this.
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3. Melodies learned from Xilutang Qintong
By "learned" I mean completed my dapu (reconstruction), including working out my interpretation of the notes and note values, writing this out as transcriptions into staff notation, learning to play them from memory, then recording them. See recordings.

In general I have focused my dapu on the earliest version of any particular melody. Thus, except for #2 Gong Yi, the melodies listed above are the earliest published versions of those titles.
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