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Chinese characters standing for pitches, read in columns.
Also known as: Gongchepu, Chinese character notation, Kunqu notation, Characters in a column
Gongche writes pitch with Chinese characters — 合, 四, 一, 上, 尺, 工, 凡, 六, 五, 乙 — read down the column. It records pitch and only sketches rhythm, because the performance tradition supplied the rest; a gongche score is a reminder rather than a full prescription.
Denotes the traditional Chinese notation writing pitch with a set of characters read in vertical columns.
Contexts: Music
Specifies pitch closely and rhythm only loosely, relying on an oral performance tradition to supply what the notation omits.
Contexts: Music
Was the dominant Chinese notation from the Tang period until the twentieth century, when jianpu and Western staff notation displaced it.
Contexts: Music
A vertical column of Chinese characters, each naming a pitch, with smaller marks beside them indicating beat divisions.