Studies On Wang Yanqing's Gu Qin Music

Wang Yanqing(1867-1921),named Binlu,is the Qin scholar of Zhucheng in Shandong province.He,together with Kang Youwei,made a trip in the southern areas in 1917.At that time, he was invited to teach in Nanjing Higher Normal School owing to his excellent Qin skills, and became the first Qin scholar who gave lectures in tertiary institution.Wang Yanqing's Qin Inheritance in Nanjing was developed into Mei'an Qin School due to its special style and creative ideas.His "Mei'an tablature" collected by the Mei'an disciples has over ten versions altogether including English,Chinese, Spanish and so forth, which has never occurred before.The Mei'an successors are all over the world till now.The author is the disciple of Wu Zonghan who is the third generation of Taiwan Mei'an School and also the fifth generation successor of Wang Yanqing Mei'an School.The author is engaged in studying the Guqin Music because of her interest and respect to Wang Yanqing.This dissertation is combined with four chapters, that is the new story of Wang Yanqing's Quqin, the summary of Wang Yanqing's Quqin tablature, the analysis on Wang Yanqing's Quqin melody and the art study on Wang Yanqing's Guqin.Chapter one gives a summary on the background of Wang Yanqing and the inheritance of Mei'an Qin School in Zhucheng of Shangdong province, Jinan and Nanjing.Chapter two organizes the tablature spread by Wang Yanqing, including the handwritten copy which has not been published and the different versions of "Mei'an tablature".Chapter three makes a comparison between Wang Yanqing's melody and makes the analysis of music. There have three main contents.To the start, the author gives the analysis on the connection between same name and melody or same melody and different name after organizing the melody of Chinese past generations and Wang Yanqing's melody. Secondly, the author compares Wang Yanqing's melody during the early, middle and late period in order to find the change and creation in different periods.Thirdly, the author compares the Wang Yanqing's tablature and the tablature of Shandong province so as to find the music features of Wang Yanqing's tablature according to the difference and rules.Chapter four makes a collection of the features of Wang Yanqing's music and performance, including the notation norm of Jianzipu (减字谱) on fingering in Guqin playing,the melody norm,the perform technique and the melody creation etc.The author is trying to study the ideas, the features, the melody aesthetic and the practice on Chinese Guqin culture of Wang Yanqing.Moreover, the author makes a discussion on the successors and the Mei'an School.The author combines the handwritten copy of five-line staff with the Guqin Jizipu in order to find the slight difference made by Wang Yanqing on the basis of performance and teaching,and then to recognize the essence of Wang Yanqing's Guqin music. Finally, the author makes a systemic classification to exploit some unknown features of Wang Yanqing's melody and then find that Wang Yanqing applied his theory to the practice in the field of the Guqin inheritance.The author spends lots of time and energy on studying the music handed down by Wang Yanqing by applying the Chinese traditional theory of musical form with the hope that it will develop a new vision of Chinese Guqin music study.