Definition of "qinpu"

qinpu

/t͡ʃɪnˈpuː/

noun
plural only
1. Tablature score collections for the Chinese musical instrument, the guqin.
  Quotations
  In qin music the pervasive mood/mode (when one can be said to be at the fore) is the autumn/shang correlation, and in many qinpu (collections of qin notations), pieces in shang are the most numerous.
  1993, Experimental Musical Instruments, volume 9, page 17
  A qin handbook is called qinpu in Chinese, which means literally qin tablature. Beginning from the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), many qinpu were printed after prince Zhu Chuan edited and printed the first qinpu, Shenqi Mipu (The Wonderful Esoteric Tablature).
  1994, Yip Mingmei, “Review (L'art du qin by Georges Goormaghtigh)”, in Journal of the Society for Asian Music, volume 25, University of Texas Press, page 243
  As we look back into the early collections of qin notations, known as qinpu, we find an interesting collection of pictures in the pedagogical sections of several important qinpu.
  1996, William Duckworth, Sound and Light: La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, page 144