Table of Contents for Guyin Zhengzong (1618)

This handbook, compiled by Zhu Changfang, was reprinted in Qinqu Jicheng, IX/245-386. Of its 50 listed melodies, at least 15 of them seem to be the earliest surviving published version.

目錄 Table of Contents

- 朱常淓序 Zhu Changfang preface (see image at right; "？" usually means a missing character;² IX/247):: 昔嵇中散云：「衆器之中，琴德最優。」又謂，「知音者希，（孰能珍兮。）能盡雅琴，惟至人。」則談何容易？孤於琴理，素心有獲，豈徒宜舷徽協宮商而已哉?誠以導養神氣，宣和情志焉耳。回？？？？？其宗趣不欲以大推之音而成？和將共鳴于世焉夾世多譜集精？為難或受故而逐新聲，或沿流而陳雜調，或妄構於伶人之操弄，或混拾於花奴之羯鼓，或遺美而將類廣陵，或散軼而幾曰焦尾，或如趙師之論，吳蜀李龜年之辨。秦楚其聲。曲卒未免以地限，以習違者茲。蓋考古援今，划然折衷，得若干闋，以示同好。若管厭之吹律，若姬車之指路，若窺河而數星，若呼谷而答響。非德音逸韻不收非存教雅風不采。可以含天地之醇和，吸日月之休光矣。五弦在
上，孤宣其意，王風鼓動，眾游其天，是譜也，不大有裨耶。彼若孔子之受學師襄，暗中想像，神遇文王者，獨有得於譜之先，詎能離譜而為之摹索?故曰，「人不能無樂，樂不能無形，形而不為道，不能無亂。則譜正按形合道之法也」。夫苟能知此即屬至人，從中散而下一注，未為過焉。
大明崇禎甲戍歲夏月，
潞國敬一道人撰。

中和吟 Zhonghe Yin (IX/272)
gong mode; 7 Sections; lyrics ("盖自鴻濛判而淸濁分，元胎剖而形聲呈。五方.."); only here
宗雅操 Zongya Cao (IX/275)
20 Sections; lyrics ("嘗思雷出震于地中，爲樂之所自從。夫亦...."; 7249.xxx); only here
高山 Gao Shan (IX/280)
6; from 1425
流水 Liu Shui (IX/282)
8; from 1425
廣寒遊 Guanghan You (IX/284)
9; also called 清都引 Qingdu Yin; from 1425
陽春 Yang Chun (IX/286)
16; from 1425
梅花 Mei Hua (IX/289)
10; from 1425
鷗鷺忘機 Oulu Wang Ji (IX/291)
4; from 1620
冲和吟 Chong He Yin (IX/292)
3; from 1589
圯橋三進履 Yi Qiao San Jin Lü (IX/293)
7; from 1525
漁樵問答 Yu Qiao Wenda (IX/295)
shang mode; 6; also called 金門待漏 Jinmen Dai Lou; from 1559
秋江夜泊 Qiujiang Yebo (IX/296)
4; from 1425/1614
風雷引 Feng Lei Yin (IX/297)
10; from 1525
清夜聞鐘 Qingye Wen Zhong (IX/299)
14; earliest: unrelated to earlier ones from 1559
扣角歌 Kou Jiao Ge (IX/302)
10; from 1559
風入松 Feng Ru Song (IX/304)
8; earliest; no lyrics, and unrelated to other Feng Ru Song
亞聖操 Yasheng Cao (IX/306)
5; lyrics; from 1511; in front it says "趙氏遺珍" (comment)
懷古吟 Huai Gu Yin (IX/308)
4; from 1546 but see 1525
靜觀吟 Jing Guan Yin (IX/309)
3; from 1579
墨子悲歌 Mozi Bei Ge (IX/310)
11; from 1609; has preface ("墨子悲歌者墨子悲絲也。其意切而其情悲....")
釋談章 Shitan Zhang (IX/313)
1; lyrics; from 1592
陽關三疊 Yangguan Sandie (IX/317)
3; lyrics; from 1530
蘇武思君 Su Wu Si Jun (IX/318)
4; earliest: unrelated to others
雁落平沙 Yan Luo Pingsha (IX/319)
"jue mode" (no!?); 5; earliest of over 50
列子御風行 Liezi Yu Feng Xing (IX/320)
10; from 1425
養生操 Yang Sheng Cao (IX/323)
5; mode like #24; "only here" but seems related to Yang Sheng Zhu
碧天秋思 Bitian Qiu Si (IX/324)
9; Guide: "earliest of 13" but some later versions are different;
mode like #24; unrelated to Bitian Qiu or Tianfeng Huan Pei
蒼梧引 Cangwu Yin (IX/326)
10; related to 1525 Cangwu Yuan
子猷訪戴 Ziyou Fang Dai (IX/329)
11; only here and 1525 (very different)
禹會塗山 Yu Hui Tushan (IX/331)
zhi mode; 14; also called 上國觀光 Shan Guo Guangguang; from 1425
悲秋 Bei Qiu (Mourn Autumn; IX/335)
10; "also called Autumn Boudoir [秋閨 Qiu Gui]"; earliest of 8 (related to the standard tuning Song Yu Bei Qiu)
樵歌 Qiao Ge (IX/338)
12; from 1425
關雎 Guan Ju (IX/340)
9; from 1491
山居吟 Shan Ju Yin (IX/342)
5; from 1425
雉朝飛 Zhi Zhao Fei (IX/343)
yu mode; 12; from 1425
滄海龍吟 Canghai Long Yin (IX/346)
7; also called 滄江夜雨 Cangjiang Yeyu; from 1579
鸞鳳吟 Luan Feng Yin (IX/348)
3; earliest of two
漢宮秋 Han Gong Qiu (IX/349)
14; from 1589 (not 1525)
大雅 Da Ya (IX/351)
huangzhong mode; 10; from 1425
秋鴻 Qiu Hong (IX/354)
qingshang mode; 36; has copy of preface from 1425
搗衣曲 Dao Yi Qu (IX/359)
guxian mode; 12; from 1589
羽化登仙 Yuhua Deng Xian (Growing Feathers and Becoming an Immortal; IX/362)
Shangjue mode; 13; earliest of 18 to 1914. Second version (1689; XIV/309) has 30 sections; third (1705; XIII/408) has 24; fourth (1722; XIV/541) has 30 sections and the first attribution, to Wulingxianzi; #9 (ca. 1802), has 50 sections. These longer versions seem very different from each other as well as the earliest one. (See also the 1670 Shenhua Yin as well as the suggestion with the following Yueyang San Zui of a possible connection. A study of the differing versions of Yuhua and comparing these to Yueyang San Zui might could be quite instructive.)
岳陽三醉 Yueyang San Zui (Thrice Drunk at Yueyang; IX/365)
20; 商角調 shangjue mode.
Earliest of 8 from 1634 to 1946. Further details here
莊周夢蝶 Zhuang Zhou Meng Die (IX/369)
12; from 1425
挾仙遊 Xie Xian You (IX/371)
mangong mode; 12 (see tracing under Baji You)
獲麟 Huo Lin (IX/374)
6; from 1425
瀟湘水雲 Xiao Xiang Shui Yun (IX/376)
ruibin mode; 10; from 1425
大胡笳 Da Hujia (IX/378)
wuyi mode; 18; from 1425
廣陵真趣 Guangling Zhen Qu (IX/382)
manshang mode; 1; earliest: only here, Zha Guide mistakenly has this as an alternate title for Guangling San (see next)
廣陵散 Guangling San (IX/382)
manshang mode; 9; earliest (see commentary here, and tracing chart under the musically unrelated 1425 Guangling San) ³

朱常淓跋 Zhu Changfang afterword (IX/385-386)
Begins, "盖人者兩儀之播氣...."

Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1. Table of Contents
The handbook itself did not have a table of contents.
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2. Damage on the pages in the above image
Jerome Kerlouegan has kindly sent me images of two of the three damaged pages. They had been sent to him from the Shanghai Library, but either they had not copied image 1a, or the their copy of the handbook was missing that page. The two they had are here:

DIR>1a (missing)
1b: view
2a: view

Thus if a character is missing from the transcription above it is probably because I could not read it.
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3. Later short versions of GLS
The linked chart lists them, but they all seem based not on the version here but on the second one (≥1802)
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