Gongche notation

Gongche notation or gongchepu is a traditional musical notation method, once popular in ancient China. It uses Chinese characters to represent musical notes. It was named after two of the Chinese characters that were used to represent musical notes, namely "" gōng and "" chě.

Gongche notation
Traditional Chinese工尺譜
Simplified Chinese工尺谱

Sheet music written in this notation is still used for traditional Chinese musical instruments and Chinese operas. However usage of the notation has declined, replaced by mostly jianpu (numbered musical notation) and sometimes the standard western notation.

The notation usually uses a movable "do" system. There are variations of the character set used for musical notes. A commonly accepted set is shown below with its relation to jianpu and solfege.

Gongche
shàng

chě

gōng

fán

liù


Numbered musical notation 123(4)56(7)
Movable do solfège syllable doremi(between fa and fa♯)solla(between ti♭ and ti)
Simplified Japanese notation L
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