On the Artistic Characteristics of Friendship-themed Tang Poems Set to Music
On the Artistic Characteristics of Friendship-themed Tang Poems Set to Music

Summary/Abstract: Tang dynasty is recognised as the classic era with the highest quality and greatest quantity of poems in the history of ancient Chinese literature. Friendship-themed Tang poems make up a huge proportion of these poems, and when combined with music, they take on an even more remarkable artistic value. However, it is a great pity that no scholarly work has been done to date in Chinese and English scholarship to study the artistic characteristics of friendship-themed Tang poems set to music from a genre perspective. This article uses a typological approach to focus on the category of friendship theme in Tang poems set to music, revealing their importance, historical background, cultural value, musical and literary characteristics in a scientific manner, and making an effort to grasp the laws of artistic creation in the field of poems set to music, so as to realise the integration of the ancient and the modern, the East and the West, and to discuss, build and share a community of human destiny in culture and art.

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