New book series focuses on ancient Chinese music notation system
By Chen Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2017-09-12 08:02
Guido of Arezzo, a music theorist in medieval Italy, devised the music notation system, which laid the foundation of Western music. And half way around the world in China, musicians also recorded their music in their own system, called gongchepu, dating to the Tang Dynasty (618-907).
By using 10 Chinese characters to represent musical notes, similar to do-re-mi, gongchepu was widely used to record music, such as songs of traditional Chinese operas.
On Sept 5, a series of books, called the China Gongchepu Collection, which documents old songs recorded in the old Chinese music system, was published by the Art and Culture Publishing House, the Ministry of Culture says.
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