Scratchier
The scrap tiger ( Chinese 敔 , pinyin yǔ ; Wade-Giles yü ) is a Chinese scrap instrument made of wood that has been known since the pre-Qin period . In the classification of the eight sounds ( bayin ) it is assigned to the wooden instruments.
Its shape represents a tiger lying on its stomach; since the Tang dynasty , a thin bamboo cane or a wooden pole has been passed over the tooth comb on the tiger's back and produces a scraping sound. The instrument was used in courtly sacred music ( yǎyuè ) and can indicate the end of a composition. It is also known in Korean ritual music ( jeongak ). In Korea it is called eo ( Hangŭl 어).
According to the French Jesuit Joseph-Marie Amiot , who worked in Beijing from 1751 to 1793 , the tiger symbolizes the submission of all animals to humans. It is unclear, however, whether the teeth were previously tuned to six different pitches, as Amiot indicates, or whether the sharp tiger was struck six times during ceremonies in the Song and Yuan dynasties .
Commentary on the Shangshu
Already in Chapter Yi Ji ( 益稷 - "Yi Ji") of the book of records ( Shangshu ) of Schraptiger along with the beat box ( 柷 , zhù mentioned). The Han temporal commentary by Zheng Xuan on the text passage reads: “The scruffy tiger (yǔ) looks like a tiger lying on its stomach, its back is carved and jagged like the tip of a hoe or a sword (chú wú), he becomes tickled with an object so that it produces music. "
See also
- Temple block , Chinese mu-yü
literature
- Arthur Christopher Moule: A List of the Musical and Other Sound-Producing Instruments of the Chinese. (Shanghai 1908) ( Source Materials in Ethnomusicology, Vol. 3) Frits Knuf Publishers, Buren 1989, pp. 11f
- Curt Sachs : The musical instruments of India and Indonesia . ( Handbooks of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin ) 2nd edition, De Gruyter, Berlin 1923, p. 49
- Yang Yinliu (Ed.): Zhongguo yinyue cidian (Dictionary of Chinese Music). Beijing 1984
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.nhu.edu.tw/~topart/www1/5/ya537.htm
- ↑ Arthur Christopher Moule, 1989, p. 12