Interpretation Of "Wei's Notation"

"Wei's Notation" is a kind of poetry score imparted,edited and published by Wei Hao,a posterity of businessman Wei Zhiyan who lived in telophase of Ming Dynasty and spread some works to Japan where it is nicknamed "Wei's Music" or mingyue(Music of Ming Dynasty).In terms of it's research,following japanese scholar Hayashi Kenzo's Research of Ming's Eight Tunes(1943), attention of chinese scholars is also paid to this area engendering various doubtful points. Through reasoning and demonstration and on basis of materials rarely touched,this essay buttons down such problems as:attribute of music in "Wei's Notation",issues of "比" and "工"(The notes of sho),pitch name was not accordance with the one that really used etc.In addition,textual research,updating of some details such as its actual amount,phonoiogics,precise sourse of other works are also made in this essay.This essay includes four parts:introduction,three chapters in main part,epilogue and translated notation.Introduction is a general description of "Wei's Notation".The first chapter in main part sums up the major research findings and debating focus and this notation is decided to be a result of Ming's ritual and rite music according to its background and content,besides,its accompanying part has the nature of "response" for its adhering-to-lyric melody;the second chapter emphasizes the interpretation of score,making a discussions about lyric,phonoiogics,gongchi notation and performing signs,through which I concluded that its melody consists mainly by d,e,~#f,~#g,a,b,~#c; and basing itself on the results of the last chapter,the third chapter confirms that the so-called "Ming's Eight Tunes" is not the gongdiao(pitches and modes) but the sediao(tuning of se).The epilogue points out the weak points of six-volume set of "Wei's Score" in the hope that new historical materials will reshape this research.Finally,this text is accompanied by more than two hundred interpreted scores made by writer including some texts;differences between versions circulated today,between original notation and cited parts in other works.