Mr. Han Fei, founder of the Yuyuan Silk-String Society, is a historian with particular expertise in the modern history of Nanjing and a deep knowledge of the Republican era. Today, he shared the April 7, 1935 issue of the Central Daily News with me. It carried a notice announcing guqin broadcasts by Nanjing’s Qingxi Qin Society at the Central Radio Station.
The notice is transcribed below, with an English translation.
Qingxi Qin Society to Broadcast Guqin Music
Six Consecutive Days Beginning Today
At the invitation of the Central Radio Station, the Qingxi Qin Society will come to the station to broadcast guqin performances at 8:20 each evening from the seventh through the twelfth. As the seventh falls on a Sunday, that day’s broadcast will begin earlier, at 6:50 p.m., presenting three pieces: Eight Views of Xiaoxiang, Xiaoxiang Shuiyun, and Dialogue between the Fisherman and the Woodcutter.
Material concerning Eight Views of Xiaoxiang will be published by the Central Radio Station in issue thirty of its Broadcast Weekly. As for the other two pieces, Xiaoxiang Shuiyun will be performed solo by Mr. Gu Meigeng, and Dialogue between the Fisherman and the Woodcutter solo by Mr. Peng Zhiqing.
According to an old tradition, Xiaoxiang Shuiyun was composed by Guo Chuwang of the Song dynasty while travelling through Yunmeng and ascending Mount Jiuyi. Its musical phrases are exceptionally distinctive. Among its earlier sections is one called “The Sound of Water and Clouds,” which employs recurring and mutually answering finger techniques to portray a vast, misty expanse of clouds and water. In the later sections, the rhythms change, subtly suggesting sails following the turns of the Xiang River, with Mount Heng and Mount Jiuyi coming into view. Those who understand the music will discern these qualities for themselves.
Dialogue between the Fisherman and the Woodcutter was composed by Xifeng in the late Ming dynasty. Its scores exist in two forms, with lyrics and without. Mr. Peng will perform a version without lyrics. In it, the creaking of oars, the ringing of the woodcutter’s axe, and the voices of fisherman and woodcutter answering one another are vividly portrayed. The secluded beauty of the mountains and waters may likewise be imagined through the musical phrases. We hope that those sympathetic to ancient music will give these broadcasts their attention.
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六晚琴声：一则民国古琴广播预告
愚园丝社发起人韩飞先生是史学家，尤其精通南京近代史，对民国研究颇深。今日，他转我一份1935年4月7日的《中央日报》，其中刊登了南京清溪琴社在中央电台的奏播预告。现将原文转录如下。
清溪琴社奏播古琴
今日起连播六天
清溪琴社应中央电台之请，自七日至十二日，连日晚间八点二十，莅台奏播古琴。惟以七日为星期，特提早于下午六时五十分开始，奏播《潇湘八景》《潇湘水云》《渔樵问答》三操。
除《潇湘八景》一操，将由中央电台于《广播周报》第三十期内登载外，至《潇湘水云》一操，为顾梅羹君独奏；《渔樵问答》一操，为彭芷卿君独奏。
考《潇湘水云》一操，旧传宋郭楚望游云梦、登九嶷所作，音节极为奇特。其前数段中，有名“水云声”者，专以往来合应诸指法，以状云水苍茫之景；末数段节奏变换，隐隐有帆随湘转、望衡九面之意，知音者自能辩之。
《渔樵问答》一操，系明末西峯所作，谱分有词、无词二种。彭君所奏，系无词谱。其中橹声欸乃，樵斧丁丁，以及渔樵相互问答之声，历历如绘；而山水清幽之景，尤可于音节中想像之见。所盼同情古乐者，加以注意焉。
编注：报纸正文依所提供的中文转录全文收录，仅添加标点与分段，英文按该转录翻译。曲源归属等说法均保留原报道表述。《中央日报》，1935年4月7日，第二张第三版，《清溪琴社奏播古琴》
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