ABSTRACT
Chiang K’uei was both a musician - a player on string and wind instruments and a composer - and poet. While he composed many tunes for his own verse he was always on the look-out for interesting music which he would copy, perhaps from some lute-player or from old music books. Examples of his music are shown with his poetry here, and for this we are indebted to Dr Laurence Picken and to the Hungarian Studia Musicologica for permission to reprint these most interesting and tuneful examples of secular music written over 700 years ago.
