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Folio "6", Part 1: Specific steps for getting started; | 卷六:名數發端第一、右手指法第二 I/94 |
From here to the end of some versions of this handbook is a section (see QQJC I/94 - 103) that is considered either as a continuation of Folio 5 or the beginning of Folio 6. From pp. 94-101 it has a section with no overall title but with 24 numbered entries on a variety of themes, including finger techniques and rules that should be followed.
Explanations provided by the translator may be in italics, brackets
( ) or footnotes.2)
#1. Specific steps for getting started (名數發端第一; I/94)
大食中名左指也。
乇尸末乚勾__丁__右指也。
如__則九為徽數,四為弦數,餘字同。
#2. Right hand finger techniques (右手指法第二; I/94)
手指法第二 Fingering methods #2
八字調領 Outline of eight stroke indicators
乇:托字,大指入也。 tuo thumb goes in; this and pi
are sometimes reversed
置琴者鳳嗉在右,龍鬚在左,軫居案外,去案一寸有半。比肩而坐,心應五徽,氣和體正,然後扣弦而鼓之。
凡學者先習數弦,數之則自大弦始。一曰宮,二曰商,三曰角,四曰徴,五曰羽,六曰少宮,七曰少商。近岳為一徽,至尾為十三徽。出十三徽一指間曰徽外。
See * in image top right: 8 short forms, 45 explanations, then 47 short forms; no indication of source.
尸:擘字,大指出也。 pi/bo thumb goes out (also 劈 pi)
木:抹字,食指入也。 mo index finger in
乚:挑字,食指出也。 tiao index finger out
勾:勾字,中指入也。 gou middle finger in
__:剔字,中指出也。 ti middle finger out
丁:打字,名指入也。 da ring finger in
__:摘字,名指出也。 zhai ring finger out
Alternate shorthands then given for 摘 and 抹 .
右抹勾相聯謂之蠲。
如「 」(即蠲三)謂先抹次勾,食指屈起,中指著四弦上,須令兩聲相
續,不可抹自一聲,勾自一聲也。蓋抹勾雖有先後,而下指正須相
逐,勢舅逸驥攢蹄為善。與見疊蠲釋。
(continuing on page at right)
(The You Lan finger technique explanations include two brief explanations for 蠲 juan followed by one for "相接蠲又曰連蠲", although for its
finger diagrams there is a special illustration for "曡蠲" [next]. Here, though, there are in all explanations for 6 more types of "蠲 juan".)
右抹兩絃,勾兩絃,後抹與前勾相續曰疊蠲(且如__),即先抹三
絃,次抹四絃勾三相逐,次勾四絃九四聲而中間兩聲相聯也。
大抵正蠲二疊蠲三,故譜中言蠲三。勾四者正蠲也,言蠲三四雖
無田字即疊蠲也,且疊字從畾從冝非從畾也,近世譜中有言
倚蠲者,盖第一聲,少息,而後三聲相續有言双倚蠲者,則第三
聲少息而獨出勾聲也,然此乃疾徐踈數之節,有自然而非使
然,不可書之於譜以爲一定之規。
(This is the longest explanation I know of for any finger technique.)
右連蠲有二法,當視絃數為之,就如連(蠲)即謂先正蠲而就加背
蠲也。《離騷》中有連蠲則先抹三四五絃如一聲,而就勾四五絃如
疊蠲法也。蓋食指才抹五弦即隨下中指勾四絃令與抹五(絃)
相續,總成五聲,第五聲與六聲相聯也。餘見「背蠲」。
(An example is given from Li Sao but no surviving version has a 蠲/㳙. Ends with "also see bei juan; there is no such explantion here but perhaps elsewhere?)
右打勾相連為反蠲指法,與正蠲同,但(改)抹為打而聲比正蠲
差急切耳。《履霜》、《烏夜啼》是也。
A comment explains these are two melody names.
右,如半蠲三,謂以食指急抹二三,中指隨下着在二絃上,只令
二絃有三聲。又法,食指才抹中指急勾,是也。
右正蠲聲者兩聲双蠲即以抹勾之間添一抹。
(Continue right hand finger technique 「双蠲」)
I/95
其法蠲弌即急抹一二,勾一都作一聲,須急作。
右先抹次勾急作兩聲,中指着四弦上。右別譜云:双抹、双勾其理皆同,但異名也。
假令散打四(大九挑六)間勾不動,即是大九按六不動,散打四挑五按六間勾,有八聲,凣譜中云大間勾。打六、勾五、勾六、打五、挑七,此五聲名為大間勾。
(This should be a mistake: if da jian gou has 8 notes, then the one with 5 notes should be jian gou; #11 xiao jian gou has 3 notes.)
其法先打三此勾二三又挑四。
(This seems as though the explanations for #9 and #10 have been reversed.)
先勾三,次勾二,又挑四,三聲。又法,先勾六,次勾五,復挑七,此三聲名為小間勾。
假令散打四,大十挑六,覆間勾不動,即是大九按六不動,散打三四,挑按六不動,勾四五打四,挑按六是也。
(#14 continues on page at right)
(Continue right hand finger techniques)
I/96
Compare Cheng Yujian: 即短璅法也....以大指搯食指第一,節文上近指面急先抹入,又急挑出,又急抹入相連,共三聲也。"
(Continue right hand finger techniques)
I/97a
右手譜字偏傍釋 Explanation of right hand shorthand forms
托 擘 抹 挑 勾 剔 打 摘 瑣 蠲
㳙 彈 齪 歷 輪 度 拂 急 連
捻 抹
全扶 半拂 撥刺 間勾 大間勾 小間勾 長鎖
慢鎖 單彈 双彈 三彈 間樓員 再作 從頭
從丹作 徽 打員 歷 急歷 急鎖 絃
捻 添 慢聲 勾剔 搗
Contue to next section: Left hand finger techniques
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a
separate page)
1.Taiyin Daquanji
See comments with right hand technique explanations. QF 100-1
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2.
Explanations by translator
See comments concerning the structure of the original text.
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