Chinese Pipa Performance Art

Author: Li Jingxia
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: The vast and boundless river of Chinese art history, with its expansive and inclusive spirit, embraces and absorbs various cultures, converging into a tide that gives birth to eras symbolized by the prosperity of thought and the flourishing of culture. In this radiant river, music art, particularly instrumental music, as a carrier of civilization, flows with the ebb and flow of the tide, overflowing with brilliance. The long journey of the development of Chinese pipa art is a magnificent scroll, dazzling with the light of civilization, filled with the beauty of culture, the beauty of history, the beauty of humanity, the creative spirit of masters and geniuses, the challenge of humans to achieve highly difficult performance techniques with their own bodies, the essence, wisdom, and rational spirit of Chinese civilization, and a dynamic, open, ordered, infinitely vibrant, and infinitely possible journey of beauty that integrates knowledge from multiple disciplines. As one of the professional theoretical system projects in this discipline, this book explores aspects related to Chinese pipa performance art, including basic movements and basic techniques, technical conditions and technical methods, technical relationships and technical structures, techniques for organizing movements and techniques for organizing music, techniques for variation and expressive techniques, the integration of movement psychology and music psychology, instrumental language and the process of instrumentalization, the aesthetic styles of pipa art and its aesthetic styles, certain theoretical issues of performance techniques and performance art, and the special abilities of performers, and more. From the perspective of instrumental musicology, using an overall, systematic, and comprehensive approach, this book focuses on the relationship between Chinese pipa performance art and performance techniques.