Tang and Song Lyrics: 300 Selections: Illustrated Text

Author: Gai Guoliang
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Publish Date: 1999-09-01
Features: Song Ci is a classic in Ci poetry. This book selects 300 masterpieces from various schools of famous Tang and Song dynasty poets, presenting the essence with annotations, comments, and illustrations. The printing is also extremely exquisite, making it a valuable book worth collecting. This series of books also includes the illustrated edition "Three Hundred Poems of the Tang Dynasty." The Northern Song Dynasty had the saying, "Wherever there is a well, people can sing Liu Ci." Even after Ci poetry and music were separated and became a purely independent rhythmic form of expressive writing, some literati deeply versed in music created "self-composed tunes," which means composing music to match their own written lyrics. For example, the Southern Song Dynasty poet Jiang Kui composed many such tunes. Some of these new tunes also became Ci tunes (forms) used by later generations to compose Ci poetry.