Related data for: Technology in a New Key: Toward a Reexamination of Musical Theory and Practice in the Zeng Hou Yi 曾侯乙 Bells

Accompanying music audio files and music notation files for: "Technology in a New Key: Toward a Reexamination of Musical Theory and Practice in the Zeng Hou Yi 曾侯乙 Bells." This paper takes a fresh look at the music-theoretical information to be gleaned from a comparison of pitch-frequency measurements to inscriptional information from the massive bronze bell-set excavated from the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng 曾侯乙 (d. ca. 433 BCE), and attempts to place it in the context of the roughly parallel knowledge derived from received texts of Warring States China. After briefly examining a couple of important textual witnesses to conceptions of music theory from that era, the paper then examines how similar conceptions may have informed the inscribers of the Zeng Hou Yi bells, who, concerned with more practical musical ends, employed a system of nomenclature that diverged in subtle yet important ways from the formulations of their philosophical counterparts. The final two sections then explore possible implications of the bells’ relatively unique terminology from the standpoints of scale structures and musical temperament, respectively, looking for any consistent patterns to be found among tone-to-key distributions across the bells, as well as clues to the possible deployment of a system of intonation designed to provide a means of tempering the twelve-tone gamut in order that such a range of different scales played in distinct keys over several octaves would have even been possible in the first place.

本数据集配套论文《新诠乐律：重新审视曾侯乙编钟（Zeng Hou Yi Bells）的音乐理论与实践》（原标题：Technology in a New Key: Toward a Reexamination of Musical Theory and Practice in the Zeng Hou Yi Bells）的音乐音频文件与乐谱文件。该论文重新审视通过比对出土于曾侯乙（卒年约公元前433年）墓的巨型青铜编钟群的音高频率测量结果与铭文信息所获取的音乐理论资料，并尝试将其纳入战国时期传世文献所承载的近似平行的音乐认知语境之中。在简要考察该时期两种承载音乐理论观念的重要传世文本佐证后，论文继而探讨类似的音乐观念可能如何影响了曾侯乙编钟的铭文制作者——这些制作者出于更务实的音乐实践需求，采用了一套与同时期哲学学派理论表述存在细微却关键差异的命名体系。论文最后两个章节分别从音阶结构与音乐律制的视角，探析该编钟独特术语体系的潜在意蕴，旨在挖掘编钟音高-调键分布中的一致模式，同时探寻一套可能用于调校十二音音域的音准体系线索：这套音准体系本需实现多八度内不同调式下多样音阶的演奏，方才得以成立。