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Abstract:Tan Xinpei 譚鑫培 (1847–1917) is an era-defining figure in the history of Jingju (Peking Opera) and also one of the first generation of Jingju actors who recorded arias, in 1907 and 1912. Widely sung during his lifetime, his arias were notated and published as music scores after his death. The recordings and notated scores (with commentary) are the subject of this paper, which explores their relationship to Tan's "flexible singing" on stage and their role in the dissemination and transmission of Tan's singing style to this day.
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The focus of CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature is on literature connected to oral performance, broadly defined as any form of verse or prose that has elements of oral transmission, and, whether currently or in the past, performed either formally on stage or informally as a means of everyday communication. Such "literature" includes widely-accepted genres such as the novel, short story, drama, and poetry, but may also include proverbs, folksongs, and other traditional forms of linguistic expression.