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qinpu

Syllables: qin·pu/t͡ʃɪnˈpuː/

qinpu noun: tablature score collections for the Chinese musical instrument, the guqin.

Noun

qinpu pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Tablature score collections for the Chinese musical instrument, the guqin.
    • In qin music the pervasive mood/mode (when one can be said to be at the fore) is the autumn/shang correlation, and in many qinpu (collections of qin notations), pieces in shang are the most numerous.1993, Experimental Musical Instruments, volume 9, page 17
    • A qin handbook is called qinpu in Chinese, which means literally qin tablature. Beginning from the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), many qinpu were printed after prince Zhu Chuan edited and printed the first qinpu, Shenqi Mipu (The Wonderful Esoteric Tablature).1994, Yip Mingmei, “Review (L'art du qin by Georges Goormaghtigh)”, in Journal of the Society for Asian Music, volume 25, University of Texas Press, page 243

Origin of qinpu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 琴譜 /琴谱 (qínpǔ).

Questions about qinpu

What does qinpu mean?
Qinpu means tablature score collections for the Chinese musical instrument, the guqin.
What part of speech is qinpu?
Qinpu is a noun.
How do you pronounce qinpu?
Qinpu is pronounced /t͡ʃɪnˈpuː/.

Words near qinpu in the dictionary

  1. Qinhuangdao
  2. Qinling Mountains
  3. Qinnan
  4. qinot
  5. qinoth
  6. qinpu
  7. qinqin
  8. qins
  9. Qinshui
  10. qintar
  11. qintarka

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