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An Overview of the Evolution of Ancient Poetry Art Songs

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DOI: 10.25236/icess.2019.079

Author(s)

Xiang Yu

Corresponding Author

Xiang Yu

Abstract

Chinese ancient poetry art songs are an artistic expression of the perfect combination of Chinese traditional literature and elegant music art. It has a refined language, a subtle meaning, a high-level artistic conception, a poetic taste, and a high aesthetic value. It includes two concepts, narrow and broad. In the narrow sense, under the influence of the new musical form, using the European harmony system and polyphonic thinking to write a Chinese art song with rich national characteristics, Combined with Chinese national tone and classical poetry. Broadly speaking, It refers to the work with the characteristics of Chinese ancient poetry art songs in the history of Chinese culture. Such as "The Book of Poetry", "The Songs of the Chu", Yuefu poem, the Tang poetry, the Song poetry, Songs of the Yuan Dynasty, and the small songs prevailing in the Ming and Qing dynasties, they are all outstanding representatives of the perfect combination of excellent poetry and music. They are excellent works of poetry and music, which contain rich ideological content and noble and elegant temperament. They not only truly record the rich and colorful world of the Chinese nation, but also show the long-standing cultural traditions and extensive aesthetic appeal of the Chinese nation.

Keywords

Chinese ancient poetry art songs, The development overview, The ancient evolution, Modern development, The contemporary development