Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c11.s2.t6.4

v2.c11.s2.t6.4

Besides the texture research about the origin of music, an outstanding contribution of *Music Miscellany* was to record a large amount of folk music used by the royals in the middle of Tang, especially after An Lushan Rebellion. Secondary, although *Recognition of Five Tones and Twenty-eight Melodies* attached at the end of book had no pictures left and it was hard to know the whole story. The words about pipa melody are still the precious material for later generations to study the Tang prosody and Gong melody. Thirdly, it recorded the stories for socially disadvantaged musicians who contributed greatly to Tang musical dancing.