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Table 2. (Continued)
Tune names The number The number of Notes
of beats in beats in Beiguan
shisanyin xianpu
Qiuchuan秋串 31 46
Dongchuan冬串 32 52 Same name yet different
scores (listed separately here)
Yanzhuzaipu奄猪仔谱 20 20
Jiulianhuanyi九连环一 39 28
Sanjuban三句半 14 22
Erbajiaren二八佳人 ( “18-year-old beauty”) 31 41

Table 3. A comparison of different notations of the same names in shisanyin and Beiguan xianpu
Tune names The number of The number of beats Notes
beats in shisanyin in Beiguan xianpu
Anxiangsi暗相思 (“Unknown 68 34 Same name yet different scores
lovesickness”)
Tianxiale天下乐 32 15 Same name yet different scores
Xiajing夏景 (“Summer Scenery”) 34 ？ Same name yet different scores
Qiujing 秋景 (“Autumn Scenery”) 40 ？ Same name yet different scores
Dongjing 冬景 (“Winter Scenery”) 49 ？ Same name yet different scores
Pu’an Zhou普庵咒 (“Pu’an Mantra”) 39 ？ Same name yet different scores
Nanci南词 (“Southern Arias”) 34 65 Same name yet different scores
Shuidiyu 水底鱼 (“Fish at the Bottom”) 59 56 Same name yet different scores
Xihuliu西湖柳(“West Lake Willows”) 48 ？ Same name yet different scores
Xianlaiwushi闲来无事 (“Idling Away”) 27 27 Same name yet different scores

Table 4. A comparison of instruments used in Taiwanese In a nutshell, Beiguan is a near-relative hybrid musical
shisanyin and Taiwanese Beiguan genre that blends different regional music cultures together
within the Han Chinese community. Without protracted
Shisanyin Beiguan mixed immigration, Quangang still witnessed the birth
Wind di, sheng, xiao, guan pin (di), sheng, dong of a form of hybrid music that mixes music styles from
instruments (yamu guan) xiao, yue, chi, xun people of the same ethnicity from different areas together.
Plucked string pipa, sanxian, shuangqing, pipa, sanxian, zheng, By contrast, Inner Mongolia-Han Melody, which I discuss
instruments zheng, qin zheng (sometimes), qin zheng, yueqin, in another paper, is a hybrid musical form that emerges
yangqin (an earlier version) yangqin
Bowed string tixian, hexian, zhongxian, tixian, hexian, in a multi-ethnic settlement. It is a hybrid created by
instruments sixian, maoxian, guxian, tihu diaoguizi, daguangxian, and thriving on related communities living in a habitat
labaxian shared by heterogeneous ethnic groups. This type of music
Percussion eduo, jiaoluo, shuangyin, muyu, jiaoluo, represents the interrelationship between the Mongols
instruments sanyin, tanban, binggu shuangyin, zhu, bofu and Han Chinese. Besides, it also helps the formation of
the Inner Mongolia-Han Chinese, a new ethnic group
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Shisanyin is used in memorial ceremonies held in the hybridizing the Mongols and Han Chinese .
Confucian Temple and adheres to the tradition of yayue, Acknowledgments
thus presenting an elegant and standard ancient flavor.
However, Taiwanese Beiguan boasts diverse music types None.
and social applications, so it tends to cater for worldly 62. See “An Analysis of Hybrid Models and Ethnicities in the
tastes. Performances of the two music genres easily allow Inner Mongolia-Han Melody” by Song Jin. Musicology in
participants to see the distinction. China, 2021, vol. 1, pp. 30-37.

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