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Chapter 30 - Music

from Part 3 - Culture, Religion, and Art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2019

By
Bo Lawergren
Edited by
Albert E. Dien  and
Keith N. Knapp
Albert E. Dien
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
Keith N. Knapp
Affiliation:
The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
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A manuscript, surviving in Japan, contains a composition purportedly written during the Six Dynasties period by Qiu Ming (493–590), who lived in southern China at the end of the Liang dynasty (502–557). The piece, You Lan (Secluded Orchid), was written for the qin (modern name guqin)—a type of zither. Although it is the only extant piece from the time of the Six Dynasties, we know a fair amount about the circumstances of music through the archaeology and literature of the period.

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The Cambridge History of China , pp. 698 - 720
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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