page_title: Chinese musical notation
hierarchical_section_title: Chinese musical notation
caption_attribution_description: English: 1425 manuscript of Qin notation, China
context_page_description: Systems of musical notation have been in use in China for over two thousand years. Different systems have been used to record music for bells and for the Guqin stringed instrument. More recently a system of numbered notes has been used, with resemblances to Western notations.
context_section_description: Systems of musical notation have been in use in China for over two thousand years. Different systems have been used to record music for bells and for the Guqin stringed instrument. More recently a system of numbered notes (Jiannpu) has been used, with resemblances to Western notations.
caption: Chinese Guqin notation, 1425
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