A brief analysis of the music description in Pipa Xing is as follows:
Appreciation of Pipa Xing.
The poet focuses on shaping the female image of Pipa in this poem, which profoundly reflects the tragic fate of music tricks and artists who were insulted and destroyed in feudal society, and expresses the feeling of "being a fallen person in the world" . The poem begins with "Seeing off guests on an autumn night" and "Suddenly hearing the sound of the pipa", thus "finding the sound", "asking", "moving the boat" and "meeting". After making "thousands of phone calls", the singer acted "half-baked". This echo and twist of description sets the stage for the “end of the world” theme. Later, the female lute plays music to reveal her inner world. First, there is "love" in "Atonal", then "strings" and "sound thinking", which tells about all the "failures in life" and "infinite things in the heart", showing the ups and downs of Pipa women. He then went on to write about the life experience of the Pipa girl: in those years, the Pipa girl's skills were taught to be "good enough to dress", her appearance was "dressed up by Qiuniang to make her jealous", and the teenagers in Kyoto "worked hard to Wrapped Head” and “A Song of Red Gauze Is Unknown.” However, as time went by, dusk and dawn came and went, so in the end, I had to marry a merchant's wife. This description of resentment, admiration, and crying complements her playing and singing above, completing the image of the Pipa woman. In the end, the poet's emotional waves are excited about the fate of the Pipa girl, expressing the sigh of "why do you meet someone at the end of the world?" and expressing the feelings of mutual sympathy and mutual echo. The poem is lively, step by step, dotted with stars. The two emerge endlessly and are also themes. It is like a river, with surging tides and long ups and downs. Reciting it repeatedly will sway people's hearts and lead to endless insights. The language is sonorous and powerful, and the images are vivid; like a sudden rain, like a whisper, the water bursts, the sword and the gun ring; the pearl falls on the jade plate to greet the jade flower bottom. It was like hearing it and being there.
The music description in "Pipa Xing" is really beautiful.
Poetry is the song of the soul, and song is the crystallization of poetic meaning. The British poet Coleridge once said, "He who has no music in his soul can never become a true poet." Conversely, we can also say, "A person without poetry in his soul can never become a real musician." Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty was a poet who was proficient in music. He could play the piano and sing. He is especially good at describing music and music performance. "Pipa Xing", which is well known to women and children, is a model for describing music. Bai Juyi described music in various ways in "Pipa Xing". The first is to use metaphors (rhetoric): "The big strings are noisy like the rain, and the small strings are like whispers. The noisy strings are mixed, and the big and small beads are falling on the jade plate." Use the pitch, rhythm, and melody of the music with Written in the form of pictures, it gives people unlimited associations; the second is to use double-voiced rhyming words (in terms of wording): "Caocaoqieqie" and "Youyan", which can express the rhythm and rhythm of music. The third is to use contrast (sound and silence) and combine movement and stillness. The fourth is to use mood to express music: for example, "The strings suppress the sound and thoughts, as if complaining of a life of failure." Expressing the depression of the mood, you can experience the deep sound of the strings. The fifth is to turn the invisible music into something tangible, with a sense of picture, such as: "The big strings are noisy like the rain, and the small strings are like whispers." ", "The cavalry stands out with the sound of swords and guns." The poet can concretely and vividly express abstract things, and can distinguish changes in tone and timbre, which is really wonderful. Bai Juyi described music reaching a state of perfection in "Pipa Xing".
Appreciation of the music description of "Pipa Xing".
The article "Pipa Xing" and Han Yu's "Listening to Master Ying Playing the Qin" and Li He's "Li Ping Guanhou Yin" are called "copying sounds to the text" by later generations. The sound of his imitation is extremely wonderful. This article attempts to analyze the music description section. The first characteristic of sound description is that it uses sound to imitate sound, and the image is perceptible. In fact, for auditory things like music, it is very difficult for readers to fully understand the feeling. It is not the kind of thing that can be seen and touched, and cannot be felt through vision and touch. Limits the expressive charm of text. However, the author can find a unique way to imitate the sound with sound, and the music is as wonderful as possible, the image is perceptible, and the music is vivid and lively. The author first writes that the sound of the "big strings" is "like a pelting rain", then writes that the sound of the "small strings" is "like a whisper", and then writes that the big strings and small strings mixed together make "big beads and small beads falling on a jade plate" crisp and fluent.
When it's smooth, it's the oriole singing gracefully among the flowers; when it's astringent, it's the ice and cold springs that are blocking the way. At the climax, the silver bottle bursts, the water slurry splashes out, the cavalry is dispatched, and the swords and guns are fired. Each sound appropriately expresses the gracefulness of the pipa girl playing the pipa, which greatly enriches the expressive ability of the text and greatly expands the reader's imagination and appreciation space.