Gongche notation
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Gongche notation or gongchepu is a traditional musical notation method, once popular in ancient China. It uses Chinese characters to represent musical notes. It was named after two of the Chinese characters that were used to represent musical notes, namely "工" gōng and "尺" chě.
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Traditional Chinese | 工尺譜 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 工尺谱 | ||||||||||
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Sheet music written in this notation is still used for traditional Chinese musical instruments and Chinese operas. However usage of the notation has declined, replaced by mostly jianpu (numbered musical notation) and sometimes the standard western notation.
The notation usually uses a movable "do" system. There are variations of the character set used for musical notes. A commonly accepted set is shown below with its relation to jianpu and solfege.
Gongche | 上 shàng |
尺 chě |
工 gōng |
凡 fán |
六 liù |
五 wǔ |
乙 yǐ |
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Numbered musical notation | 1 | 2 | 3 | (4) | 5 | 6 | (7) |
Movable do solfège syllable | do | re | mi | (between fa and fa♯) | sol | la | (between ti♭ and ti) |
Simplified Japanese notation | ル | 人 | フ | り | 久 | ゐ | L |