Chapter 87 Gongchi notation

Among the traditional notation methods in our country, it is the most popular, most convenient, most widely used and longest used notation method.It got its name because the words gong and chi were used in notation. Modern music scores are composed of seven roll calls (a total of twelve with semitones), namely 1 (do), 2 (re), 3 (mi), 4 (fa), 5 (sol), 6 ( la), 7 (si).Everyone is used to the relative pitch relationship between them, so as soon as you see them, you can sing according to their pitch.The ancients obviously didn’t know these seven roll names. They used other roll names. The most common ones were Wu, Fan, Gong, Chi, Shang, etc. recorded in Song Shen Kuo’s "Mengxi Bi Tan" and Chen Yang's "Le Shu". .

The current Gong Chi notation uses Shang, Chi, Gong, Fan, Liu, Wu, B (one octave lower), which are roughly equivalent to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.If the octave is higher, the last stroke is picked up, or the radical "亻" is added to the left. The biggest defect of Chinese ancient notation is that the record of beat is not very accurate. For example, in the notation of the piano, there are only pitch and fingering, but not the length of the sound. the length of each sound.Everyone's understanding is different, and the scores they type are also different.Gongchi notation still has this problem, it just marks the position of the board eye in the notation.For example, in the beat of a board and three eyes (equivalent to the 4/4 beat of the current music), the first beat (strong beat) is the board, and the symbol is "," or "X"; the second beat (weak beat) is the head. Eye, the symbol is "."; the third beat (second strong beat) is the middle eye, the symbol is "."; the fourth beat (weak beat) is the last eye, the symbol is ".".But it does not clearly indicate the length of each sound.

Gongchi notations are generally arranged vertically, just like text, from left to right.However, in recent years, influenced by the horizontal arrangement of characters, staves and numbered notations, there are also horizontal arrangements. (Basic common sense above)