CrossAsia Entry: John Thompson on the Guqin Silk String Zither

http://www.silkqin.com/
(John Thompson, New York City, NY, USA)
Description: Excellent and comprehensive information on various aspects of the seven stringed Chinese zither (guqin 古琴) by John Thompson, who has been playing and doing research on this instrument since 1974. From 1980 to 1998 he was Artistic Consultant for the Festival of Asian Arts in Hong Kong
Site content: (1) My Work ; (2) Handbooks (descriptions of various old qinpu 琴譜 (notebooks) such as the Shenqi mipu 神奇秘譜, the Zheyin shizi qinpu 浙音釋字琴譜, and others); (3) Qin as Object (Qin construction; Buying a qin; Qins in public and private collections; Silk strings, ...); (4) Qin in Art ; (5) Poetry/Song ; (6) Hear Qin ; (7) Play Qin ; (8) Analysis (including a detailed discussion on the reconstruction/realization of guqin tabulature ( "dapu" 打譜); (9) History (being in fact a short bibliography); (10) Ideology ; (11) Miscellanea ; (12) More Info (includes an extensive annotated bibliography); (13) Personal

Subject: Music history, Guqin, Forms and genres of music, Fine arts, Poetry
Region: China CN
Language: English
Ressource type: Web directory, Collection of articles/texts, Still image, Individual homepage
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