2024-09-27

晚明曲選《詞珍雅調》的編刻策略與書籍特色

 陳志勇。〈晚明曲選《詞珍雅調》的編刻策略與書籍特色〉。《民俗曲藝》225 (2024.9): 125-52

Chen Zhiyong. “Editorial Strategies and Book Features of the Late Ming Qu Anthology Cizhen Yadiao.Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore 225 (2024.9): 125-52.

 

Abstract

 

《詞珍雅調》是萬曆初年南京書坊胡東塘堂編刻的一部體量龐大的曲選。根據書籍形態來看,全書九集或存在分集單獨發行,再重製目錄、重編頁碼、合裝冠名《詞珍雅調》再出版的過程。此書建構起以「曲」為中心的編輯理念,散曲與劇曲、南曲與北曲、民歌小調與文人歌詞兼收,呈現出鮮明的為市井歌唱之用的「歌冊曲庫」性質。《詞珍雅調》以「情景分類法」為編纂原則,按不同生活場景分門別類編排曲詞,最大程度滿足讀者「按需找曲」的閱讀訴求。這種文本特色和選曲傾向的形成,很大程度與晚明時期南京城裡的市井歌樓流行「聽歌娛曲」的文化消費時尚有着直接的關係。從書籍史和戲曲史結合的角度審視《詞珍雅調》,可為晚明時期曲選的編刻和曲壇變遷問題的研究提供新的思路。

 

Cizhen yadiao is a massive qu anthology compiled and engraved by the Hudongtang bookstore in Nanjing during the early Wanli era. This work consists of nine volumes that could be printed and sold respectively; later, they were put together and reproduced into one catalogue with continuous page numbers as a new book entitled Cizhen yadiao. The anthologizing concept of the book is centered on the core of “qu”—the combination of sanqu and dramatic songs, southern songs and northern songs, folk songs and literati lyrics, thereby representing a distinctive characteristic of “songbook and qu library” for use in popular singing. The editorial principle of Cizhen yadiao lies in the classification of occasions, putting similar songs together according to various life scenes in order to make a glossary to satisfy readers’ multiple demands. The book’s features and selection strategies might be connected with the cultural consumption of the prostitutes’ song-singing entertainment in Nanjing during the late Ming. From the perspective of book history and the history of drama, Cizhen yadiao can provide us with a new way of thinking about research on anthologizing and the development of the qu.