论查阜西的琴律研究

Zha Fuxi’s Contribution to the Study of Tuning Systems in Guqin

琴学家查阜西在琴律研究中有三大贡献:(1)在现代律学研究中他于1922年率先以分数形式列出琴上十三徽每一徽的弦长比值,大大方便了琴律研究的律学计算,故其后亦被乐律学家王光祈、杨荫浏、缪天瑞等所采用,并一直沿用到今天;(2)在现代琴家中他最早发现了宋初琴家崔遵度在其《琴笺》中提出的琴徽为"天地自然之节"的学说,然后他以中国琴学术语"自然之节"为据,提出了要在琴上使用"自然音阶";(3)他在琴律研究中创立了合符于自然律音阶应用的"平调调弦法"。

Zha Fuxi has made three major contributions in the study of guqin tunings and temperaments ： （ 1 ） Early in 1922, he was the first person who listed the mathematic ratio of the length between the 13 inlays on guqin. The method has been used ever since by later scholars. （2） Among modern guqin scholars, he is the first who noticed the writings by Cui Zundu of the Song dynasty, in which the term of ＂natural point＂ was used to describe the inlays on guqin. And based on this discovery, Zha proposed that the guqin music should use the ＂natural scale. ＂ （3） He created a tuning method on guqin, called ＂Pingdiao Tuning Method＂, which is more desirable to tune natural SCales.