曲终end of piece

Pinyin: qǔ zhōng

Terms and marks

Also written: 操终

Written at the very end: the piece finishes here.

How it is played

Placed after the last jianzi of the piece to show that the music ends here and nothing more follows. Some handbooks write 操终, with the same meaning. It appears once, at the end.

In the classical handbooks

曲終也。曲完畢也。

Gist: Qu zhong: the piece is finished.

Qinxue Rumen (Introduction to Qin Studies) · 卷上·左按字母 · Qing dynasty, 1864 · View the original page · View source(opens in a new window)

References

  1. 《琴学入门》卷上·左按字母，刻本扫描（Wikimedia Commons，国家图书馆藏本）(opens in a new window)Primary source
  2. 颐和琴社《减字谱·指法符号简释》（第五部分「速度、节奏符号及其它」）(opens in a new window)Qin community