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Chen Changlin
With a focus on his 8 CD album (2012/13; see appendix) 2 |
陳長林1
8-set CD cover 3 |
Chen Changlin is a qin master well-known not only for his expressive playing but also for the size of his repertoire (see Appendix) and for his work developing a computer program for digitially re-creating traditional qin tablature.4
The results of Chen Changlin's guqin work have been included in a set of three books published in 2012 and 2013, as follows:5
- 陳長林 古琴專集 Chen Changlin Guqin Album (8 CDS; contents listed below)
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105 tracks, including 72 pieces he has personally reconstructed, another 9 that he has arranged from melodies in other repertoires, plus pieces he originally learned from other masters (sometimes via recordings). It includes only a few of his silk string recordings. For these and other recordings see this footnote. - 陳長林 古琴譜集 Chen Changlin Guqin Collected Notation
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88 transcriptions, including all of music on the first six CDs - 陳長林 琴學文集 Chen Changlin Qin Study Essays 8
About 40 essays and three appendices plus a DVD with videos of one lecture and three melodies.
Further translations of these materials are needed. Here at present there is only some brief biographical information.
Chen Changlin was born in 1932 in Fuzhou, Fujian province. As a teenager he studied Fujian-style qin play ("Min pai"), his teachers including his father 陳琴趣 Chen Qinqu,9 a maternal aunt 吳子美 Wu Zimei,10 and another Min school player 吳基西 Wu Jixi.11
In the 1950s Chen studied in Shanghai and Beijing with the leading players of the time, including Wu Jinglue, Zhang Ziqian, Zha Fuxi and so on. He joined the 今虞琴社 Jinyu Qin Society, then became involved with the 北京古琴研究會 Beijing Guqin Research Association. In 1958 he began doing and writing about dapu.
Professionally Chen became a 中國科學院計算技術研究所研究員 member of the China Science Academy Computer Technology Research Department. This led to his above-mentioned well-known work on developing software for writing guqin tablature (further details).
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a
separate page)
1.
Chen Changlin (陳長林; 1932 -)
Chen Changlin earlier wrote his name 陳長齡 and 陳長令 (both "Chen Changling"). A 中國科學院計算技術研究所研究員 Researcher at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, he was originally from Fujian province but has lived in Beijing for many years. Further biographical details are here and under Sitong Shenpin.
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2.
Chen Changlin CD recordings
In addition to the recordings in the Chen Changlin collected works he has also made several other recordings, in particular a 1996 Hugo CD entitled 閩江琴韻 Min (Fujian) River Qin Music. Chen made almost all of these recordings using nylon/metal qin strings. For recordings with silk string, the 30 CD compilation Sitong Shenpin includes seven tracks with him playing with silk strings; these were all made in the 1950s. On the other hand, the 8 CD set called
Lao Ba Zhang has no recordings of him, though he was apparently involved with that project, and the 74 CD compilation Jue Xiang has
credits and commentary by Chen Chenglin but no recordings.
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3.
8-set CD cover
The cover shown above of this book of transcriptions is very similar to the cover of the book of essays.
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| 4. Digital transcriptions (Computer-generated tablature, such as at right | Guangling Xinpu, Page one |
It is not clear to me whether this is an open-ended system that can be used for pretty much any tablature, or whether it is based on a listing made (presumably by Chen himself) of all the clusters, or part clusters, that actually exist. If the latter, then if someone uses it to write out the tablature for a piece that has not been done before, and if that piece has clusters/combinations that have not previously been used, it may become necessary to write new code into the system.
Another method used by Chen in his transcriptions is to scan the original tablature, select from this each individual cluster, and then insert those clusters under the respective notes they represent in the transcription. The only actual example of this I have found so far is for the
Shen Qi Mi Pu version of Da Hujia. Could this have been because Da Hujia has so many unusual clusters?
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5.
CDs: Part of the Chen Changlin collected works
His collected works were published in three volumes by 文化藝術出版社 Culture and Art Pubishing House, 2012/20133 (CDs 130 元; transcriptions 80 元).
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6.
陳長林 古琴專集 Chen Changlin Guqin Album
8 CDS; contents listed below. The recordings included here were presumably intended to include Chen Changlin's complete repertoire at that time, though not every recording of each piece. Several of the pieces here have linked recordings (search for "listen")
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7.
Transcriptions: Contents of 陳長林 古琴譜集 Chen Changlin Guqin Collected Notation (2013)
This book has 88 transcriptions, including all of music on the first six CDs; but the book also has transcriptions of seven pieces that are not recorded on these CDs (marked in the appendix below with * in place of the track number). CDs 7 and 8 seem to have no transcriptions, though the transcriptions numbered 86-88 in CD 6 are in fact of pieces included in the last two CDs (I have not yet checked to see if they are the same versions).
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8.
Contents of 陳長林 琴學文集 Chen Changlin Qin Study Essays (2012)
(cover)
Online commentary introduced this as follows:
"《陳長林琴學文集》共分為打譜移植；琴律漫談；琴樂與科技；記敘回憶；信件交流；附錄六部分，主要內容包括談談古琴曲《龍翔操》和《龍朔操》、改編《春江花月夜》的幾點想法等。")
This book is divided into six parts: melody reconstruction; general comments on guqin; qin music and technology; Reminiscences; Correspondence; Appendices. The main content includes discussions of the guqin melodies "Long Xiang Cao" and "Long Shuo Cao", and the adaptation of the melody Chun Jiang Hua Yue Ye."
His DVD contains:
It is all in Chinese except for one article concerning computer notation, "Preliminary Application of Computer Technique to GuQin Music Research" (from Journal of Computer Science and Technology. 4, 85–96 [1989]).
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9.
陳琴趣 Chen Qinqu
11.
吳基西 Wu Jixi
Appendix
Part of Chen Changlin's collected works; see also here and here. Below, after the original title and its romanization, the list adds my translations of the titles. Links given are to separate commentary on this website, where available, then the relevant item and page number (e.g., "1: 19") in the separately published
book of transcriptions, 陳長林 古琴譜集 Chen Changlin Guqin Collected Notation. There are transcriptions for 88 of the 105 tracks on the 8 CDs; further details of this (in particular regarding those marked *) are given in the footnote.
The eight historical recordings by Chen Changlin included
here are all found here as well; the fact that 6 of these recordings here use non-silk strings allows interesting comparions: below these are linked beginning here with Duan Qing. Several other of the recordings here also use silk strings, but although there are interesting comparisons to be made, one should keep in mind that the recording process can easily dim some of the differences. This is because the distinctiveness of the silk strings sound lies largely in the rich overstones produced by the combination of silk and wood. It is quite difficult even for professional equipment to pick up these subtleties, so the early and/or ordinary systems find it even more difficult. Added to this, if there are sound engineers "cleaning up" the sound, the distinctions can be further obscured.
Many of the links on this list, in addition to going other versions of the same melody, go to comments on recordings of my own reconstructions: I have done my own versions of most of the first 57 pieces included here.
第一輯 CD 1: 15 pieces reconstructed from Shen Qi Mi Pu
第二輯 CD 2: 11 pieces reconstructed from Shen Qi Mi Pu
第三輯 CD 3: 15 pieces, 3 reconstructed from Shen Qi Mi Pu then 12 from Xilutang Qintong
第四輯 CD 4: 15 pieces; 2 reconstructed from 1525 then 13 from 12 different handbooks
第五輯 CD 5: 14 pieces reconstructed from six sources plus two arrangments of folk melodies
第六輯 CD 6: 13 pieces transcribed and played by Chen Changlin from other repertoires
*瀟湘水雲 Xiao Xiang Shui Yun ([from Zha Fuxi, based on
1802; 86: 410)
第七輯 CD 7: "9 pieces" (? there are 11, one of the 9 being repeated; old recordings of pieces learned from other teachers; no transcriptions)
第八輯 CD 8: 11 pieces: the first six studied from teachers, the latter 5 are second versions of ones already done
For most melodies links have been added to the commentary elsewhere on this site. For most of these are are further links to my own recordings of these pieces (always the earliest known publication of any particular melody).
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This was the 字 style name of 陳澤鍠 (陈泽鍠) Chen Zehuang? Did he write 琴趣樓詩 Poetry of Qin-Interest Chamber?
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Wu Jixi is said to have been a student of "祝桐君 Zhu Tongjun", i.e.,
祝鳳喈 Zhu Fengjie, and thus in the standard tradition of the Fujian 閩派 Min qin school, 浦城一脈 Pucheng branch.
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Contents of 陳長林 古琴專集 Chen Changlin Guqin Album (8 CDS; 2013)
With links to my own commentary and recordings for these pieces
本輯十五曲全部據《神奇秘譜》由陳長林打譜並演奏
聽 listen)
*凌虛吟 Lingxu Yin
(Ascending the Great Void; 10: 61)
聽 listen 5.56; compare his silk)
本輯十一曲全部據《神奇秘譜》由陳長林打譜並演奏
聽 listen; 12.00; compare his silk)
本輯十五曲全部由陳長林打譜並演奏。
雉朝飛、莊周夢蝶、山居吟據《神奇秘譜》，其他十二曲全據《西麓堂琴統》
聽 listen)
*臨邛引 Linqiong Yin
(Linqiong Melody; belongs with Feng Qiu Huang below; 31: 159)
聽 listen)
聽 listen)
本輯十五曲全部由陳長林打譜並演奏。
*秋江送別 Qiu Jiang Song Bie
(Autumn River Departure; 52: 235)
*陋室銘 Lou Shi Ming
(Inscription on a Crude Dwelling ; 53: 243)
聽 listen)
聽 listen)
聽 listen)
本輯十四曲全部由陳長林打譜、移植並演奏。
聽 listen)
本輯十三曲全部由陳長林移植和學習，並全部由陳長林演奏。
聽 listen; 8.18; compare his silk)
聽 listen;
compare his silk)
聽 listen; 4.54;
silk!, as here)
聽 listen; 3.34;
silk?)
*欸乃 Ai Nai
(Fisherman's Cry [from Guan Pinghu based on 1876#3?; 9 sections]; 87: 422)
*古琴吟 Gu Qin Yin (Old Qin Melody
[1864]; 88: 429)
聽 listen; silk?)
本輯十一曲全部由陳長林向老師學習、和從唱片自約，並全部由陳長林演奏。
聽 listen; 4.16;
silk!, as here)
本輯共十一曲。前六曲由長林向老師學習古自學；後五曲已見于上述諸輯，現在留存其他的歷史版本。
此十一曲全部由陳長林演奏