melody of king weng

[Si]

Anyone know were to get the music for this piece or better still - upload a scanned copy of it.

[Charlie Huang]

I haven't got that on score, nevermind heard it.

[Si]

wen wang cao - lvl 6 in the NAGA list

i dont know how to find out where to find this tunes notation - there was something about a poem on the jojn thompson web site

[Si]

Ok I have found it - "Wen Wang cao"

Its in a beautiful set of qin pu books by cheng gong liang. Comes with 2 cds as well.

I dont know if its normal for these books but they have a copy of the original as well as the da pu version. Yippee!

[Charlie Huang]

I think I know which book you're on about. Haven't got that yet.

[Si]

Its has a light blue hard cover and costs about 20quid (290rmb).

[Charlie Huang]

Yep, that's the one.

[Si]

I cant remember what the crossy thing is (see the darker green area). It looks familiar but i cant see it in my references.

Also I think the light green area means -

Ti on 3rd and 2nd string together then slide up to 8 then 9.10 ( or is it 9 then 10)?

[Charlie Huang]

The crossy thing means 'and' or 'then', mostly used as a separator so you don't get muddled up by seeing so many numbers together.

This looks like a Ming dynasty score, so it uses relative position rather than the modern absolute (i.e. 11 here means 10.8, and the 9 10 means 'between 9 and 10', i.e. 9.4 or 9.5, etc).

[Si]

Thanks!

Very intersting and a bit odd about the numbering but thanks!

[Charlie Huang]

It's not 'odd' because this is the system used before the decimalisation of hui positions.

[Si]

Ok I keep encountering things that I only half understand - hope one of you is more familiar with these:-

A - (where is starting position) this is sliding down past 13 hui and then back to 10. Keep finger on string and then gou. '

B - this looks like a gou ti when the finger in past the 13th hui?

C - Then finger still out past 13 - go a guo and slide up to 10 hui ? but its still a 6. so i cant undertand that!

then a ti and slide back out of the 13th hui and back to 10 hui?

D - looks like whilest sliding up and down on the 2nd string - i do a lun on the 4th string and at same time slide to 10 hui on the 2nd string?

i am sure that i have made some error somewhere.

[Charlie Huang]

A: correct.

B: guo then guo ti on second string at 13.2

C: guo, slide up to 10, then ti whilst the finger slides back down to 13.2 (zhu), then slide up to 10 again, followed by guo.

D: From the beginning of the bar. Guo at 13.2, slide up to 10, then slide up to 9 whilst doing li on open string five so they sound together, then slide back to 10 and pluck string 4 so it sounds together with that.

[Si]

Thanks !!

D- Li is normaly play to string so - 5 then 4 in quickly one after the other is it. Is that correct.

[Charlie Huang]

Yep.