EASIA224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Song Poetry, Sun Yat-Sen, Song Ci

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: East Asian Studies
• Course: EASIA224
• Professor: Jeffery Roberts

Document Summary

Ritual music become less important, turns to more secular music. Tang art song, drama, opera, and literati arts. The song through qing dynasties a new level of sophistication. Development of literacy society since han (brings art song, drama, and opera to song-qing) End of han-tang internationalism (purging of foreign influence) Artistic refinement and development (refinement of daoist aesthetics and revival of the guqin tradition) Notation and preservation of music traditions (the music of this period is the chinese music we know today) Poetry before zhou; han fu; tang shi. Poetry/music shiqing; tang ci; song ci. Han dynasty fu poetry (rhapsody, imaginary tales) an example. Tang dynasty shi poetry (li bai idealize a model); he style is so unique and original ( song of the roosting crows so abstract and distinctive) Song dynasty poetry song ci (romantic, love poetry, waiting for lover to come back); always write it from the melodies.