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Difference between piano music and sheet music

The zither sheet music .... The sheet music dedicated to traditional zither music.

Before the Tang Dynasty, the finger positions and chord positions for playing the zither were written down in words, which were called written scores. In the Tang Dynasty, Cao Rou pioneered the subtraction method, reducing and abbreviating the original text score to become the subtracted score, which was used in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The minus character spectrum will be the left hand's big finger, middle finger, ring finger were recorded as "big", "middle", "Xiu", the right hand fingers due to the direction of plucking the strings, plucking the strings with different fingers and have different names, such as The fingers of the right hand have different names depending on the direction of strumming and the fingers used for strumming, such as "breaking", "wiping", "hooking", etc., but they are not recorded as "breaking" in the minuscule score, "抹", "勾"...... but recorded as its diminutive, such as "擘", which is recorded as For example, "擘" is recorded as "尸", and "抹" is recorded as "木". Because a minus character needs to record all the left and right fingers of the sound, it is composed of at least four minus characters.