A New Interpretation of"Sing the Poetry Should Be Fit"
"Singing the poetry should be fit"is a core concept in the studies of the Book of Songs.For over two thousand years,the opinion of yilei in comments of Du Yu and Kong Yingda has centered on the meaning of poetry,yielding significant interpretative achievements.However,the exploration based on the musical level remains insufficient and incomplete,leading to a bottleneck which refers to the situation that"poetry exists but music is lost"in the interpretation of the dual-dimensional concept of"singing the poetry should be fit."According to documents from the Zhou and Qin dynasties,as well as the extant musical score documents of the Book of Songs,prescriptivity and hierarchy are ubiquitous among terms such as music genres,music order,music rituals,and music tunes.As a new dimension of interpretation,"categorizing according to meaning and arranging by the principles of music"highlights the necessity of combining literary meaning with music use in the interpretation of"sing the poetry should be fit."
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