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123. Kongtong Mountain Prelude
- Dalü mode: from standard tuning lower 3rd string: 1 2 3 5 6 1 2 |
崆峒引
Kongtong Yin 1 |
Commentary on Kongtong Yin in Xilutang Qintong is combined with that of #124 Kongtong Wen Dao. The title Kongtong Yin occurs, without commentary, as an unrelated melody in two later handbooks.2
Music: Three Sections (timings are from my recording 聽錄音; comes after the prelude and before
Kongtong Wen Dao)
00.00 1.
00.35 2. (harmonics)
01.10 3.
01.53 harmonic coda
02.12 end
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a
separate page)
1.
Kongtong Yin 崆峒引
8334.1 kongtong. Name of mountain; Zhuangzi (who calls it 空同) says the Yellow Emperor discussed the Dao here. Name of mountains in Jiangxi, Gansu (several?) and Sichuan; island off Shandong.
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2.
Tracing Kongtong Yin (QQJC III/219)
See Zha Fuxi's index pp. 22/-/-. The three listed versions are,
The first, in three sections and using lowered third string tuning, has no relation to the latter two, which are both in 8 sections and use standard tuning.
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