Music, or music, broadly speaking, can refer to any kind of artistic, pleasant, careful or other arrangement of sounds. The definition of music is still subject to fierce debate, but it can usually be explained as a series of temporal organizations for sound and silence, and contains rhythm, melody and harmony of different scales.

Basic definition

Pronunciation: yuèqǔ

[musical composition;com position]Musical work

"New Tang Book·Rites and Music" 11": "Zhang Wenshou thought that the system of "Twelve Harmonies" had not been prepared. So he ordered the official to make the decision, and Wenshou tested the Zhenglu and Lu, and the living Lang Lu only found out his voice, and the music was prepared." "History of the Song Dynasty·Le Zhi" 6": "Now that I have gone to see you in person, I will present the music to you, and the music played in the palace may not be in harmony. It is better to order the Secretary to make arrangements." Ding Ling's "Du Wanxiang": "But there was another long queue at the station. A long queue walked through the ticket check-in area to the sound of music singing about the great motherland. "Zhang Xianliang's "Spirit and Flesh": "The music was playing in the hall, and several couples of men and women danced in strange shapes."

In the history of Chinese music, great changes occurred in the Yuan Dynasty. It became popular to integrate the beauty of poetry into the sound of music. According to textual research, the origin of Ququ can be traced back to the beginning of ancient times. Confucius Three hundred poems were also composed into string songs; Anhui and Hunan used "Nine Songs of Chu Ci" as sacrificial songs, which were reduced to Han Yuefu (Yannian Xielu), Tang poems (Flag Pavilion Painted Walls), and Song poems for banquets and banquets, all of which were composed. Enter the orchestra and sing. Because it has a closer relationship with music than Yuefu and poetry, it is uniquely named music. It is the ultimate development of rhyme literature. In terms of lyrics, it originated from Tang music, which originated from Yan music in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Song lyrics were composed based on sound, that is, they first had the tune, and then sang it with lyrics according to the music played. It is also recorded in [An Examination of Song and Yuan Operas] that the origins of the three hundred and thirty-five tunes of Yuan tunes are derived from the eleventh song of the Song Dynasty, the seventy-five lyrics of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the twenty-eight tunes of Zhugong. At that time, literati planned another kind of literary development. At the end of the Song Dynasty, more new folk music appeared; for example, "Taiping Yuefu" and "Yangchun Baixue" compiled by Yang Chaoying of the Yuan Dynasty included Xiaoling, Santao, and ethnic minority music. Song Ci gradually could not meet the needs of the time, so the position of [Ci] in vocal music was gradually replaced by [Qu]. The literary form of Sanqu originated around the Song and Jin Dynasties. Developed during the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, it was a collection of music from ethnic minorities and minor tunes from all over the north and south. [Nanci Narrative] records: The rise of Yongjia dramas was based on village ditties. There was no palace tune at all, and the rhythm was rare. They were just adapted from the peasants and the market girls who could sing smoothly. The so-called "follow your heart", and The great achievements of song lyrics in music and rhythm are such as [Qin Yue Lou] [Dian Jian Lip] (Nian Nu Jiao), and the tune of [Liu Wai Lou], that is, the tune of lyrics [Recalling Wangsun], and the Tang and Song Dynasty's [Daqu] [Guzi Ci] [all Gong Tiao and others can be found in the "Yuefu Poetry Collection". During the Xuanhe period of the Northern Song Dynasty, Fan tune was popular in Bianjing, which is the music of ethnic minorities. Zeng Minxing, a Song Dynasty person, once said: When I arrived in Beijing at the end of Xuanhe, I was in the market and sang many Fan tunes with the name: [Manpai Preface] [Pengpenghua] and so on. Their words were so slang that all the scholar-bureaucrats at that time also sang them. Jurchen music of the Jin Dynasty was also introduced, such as Beiqu [Double Diao] in [Fengliu] etc., [Taihe Zhengyin] Composition Theory], Yuan Dynasty Zhou Deqing also said: Jurchen [Feng Liuliu] and other movements are all sung with Jurchen voices. Although there are errors in words, they do not harm the rhythm, and there is no harm. In <<; Central Plains Rhythm>> The Northern Song Huangzhonggong's (Ze Cigu) double tune (Anahu), the Yue tune (Zhuo Lusu), and the Shang tune (Langlaili) are not northern Han tunes, and should belong to Jurchen or Mongolian music. In the Ming Dynasty Wang Shizhen's "Preface to Qu Zao": Qu Zhe, the lyrics changed since the Jin Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty came to dominate China. The Hu music used was noisy and tense, and the lyrics could not be pressed during the rush, so they were replaced with new sounds. Mei Zhi. The tunes and tunes are long and short tunes that match the music. Regardless of Sanqu or opera, the tunes are usually preceded by the name of the palace tune and the tune, and each tune belongs to a certain palace tune, but there are also (borrowed palace) tunes.