Lute tune 1800 years old
NZPA-Reuter Peking A Chinese lute player has brought alive the melody from a music score last played 1800 years ago, the oldest discovered in China, says the New China News agency. Archaeologists found the music written on a piece of wood in ancient Buddhist caves in Dunhuang in 1920, but it lay neglected until a Lanzhou University reseafcher, Niu Longfei, recently transcribed it into modern notation for the pipa (lute). The music dates from the eastern Han dynasty from 25 A.D. to 220 A.D.
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Press, 3 February 1984, Page 26
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