Abstract
The poem of the music we consider is borrowed from the famous piece Silver bottle in the well bottom, one of Yue Fu poetries by Bai Juyi (772-846), a famous poet of Tang Dynasty. The original verse depicted the prevalent elopement phenomenon in the Tang Dynasty. Under the social context of disorderly relationship, women would always have no place to go back to due to double miseries imposed by humiliation pain and disobedience of decorum. The finite traditional Sheng and female voice constitutes a sharp contrast to infinite sufferings for the woman. It is characterized by the proper reflection of life encounters within the finite music. This composition has been infused with dramatic elements while adopting methods including indefinite rhythm, polyrhythm, split rhythm, chunk, fast bowing and slow singing, speaking, as well as recitation. In addition, an adoption of Man - Tang Dynasty Daqu (grand opus) acts as a further probe and practice into the structure.
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Chinese poem of Tang Dynasty，Soprano，Sheng，Indefinite rhythm，Polyrhythm，Recitation
