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Absence of Musical Harmony in Dialogue of Antiphonal Style in Nine Songs

Article Summary by: TsingHua    

Original Author: JOURNAL OF XIANGTAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY(SOCIM SCIENCE EDITION)
This abstract was translated from 《九歌》无对唱说
Modern people take it for guted that Nine Songs written by on Yuan had musical harmony in antiphonal style. In Nine Songs,
in which the verse was composed in a musical dialogue in an antiphonal style for solo performance; while a line was sung by male and other sung by female; the musical dialogue in antiphonal style was sung in duet by wizard and immortal, or two immortals, or main wizard and group of wizards; different people have different sayings with no objective standard. As a matter or fact, Nine Songs was sacrificial song. All the actions worshipped by immortals were carried out by wizards. When immortal played, a wizard or with took both tasks on their shoulder. On the one hand, he or she represented himself or herself; on the other hand, he or she alleged that immortals were in him or her, faking the immortals appearence. Accordingly, the sacrificial songs sung by the wizard could be at one time the wizard's tone, at the other time the immortal's one, but all of it was done by the wizard. As far as Nine Songs was sacrificial song, that was the wizard's solo performance or with chorus, but not the musical dialogue in antiphonal style sung between male and female, immortal and wizard or main wizard and group of wizards.
Published: July 12, 2000
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