A Research on the Liuqin Works, "Melody on a Moonlit River" and "Die Loreley," as the Creations Based on Poetic Lyrics

• Main Authors: Chen, Yen-Ling, 陳彥伶
• Other Authors: Cheng, Tsui-Pin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09953664299127783980

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 音樂學系碩士班中國音樂組 === 101 === The rapid development of the national music in Taiwan includes not only the new elements found by the music composers but also the heterogeneous creations in recent years. These compositions try to express the deep emotions in the music. The composer’s arrangement of the musical elements and themes serve as the imaginational space for the players. On the basis of poetry, there are nowadays more works for erhu fiddle and pipa than those for Liuqin. Among the rare works for Liuqin, “Moonlit River” and “Die Lorelei” are especially touching. Invited by Taipei Chinese Orchestra, the composer Wang Hui-Ran created “Melody on Moonlit River” for the third Contest of Liuquin. This work is founded on Bai Gui Yi’s poem “Pi Pa Shin,” taking from the later the main emotions and scenarios and proceeding with four major sections. “Die Lorelie” is the work composed by Liu Chi Shuang as an innovative music for the Taipei Liuqin Ensemble, created on the basis of German romantic Heine’s poem “Die Lorelei.” This research is to analyze the two works, “Moonlit River” and “Die Lorelie,” by inspecting their motives of creations, structures, techniques, and characteristics of tunes to tell the expressiveness of these two works. The composer of this research, as a music performer, makes further interpretations for the musical language and skills. Music narrates in abstract language, while poetry tells the story in terse words. The researcher, with the analyses of these two works (including the insights and interpretations of the works), hopes that the findings of this research would contribute to the performance and the creation of Liquin works.