A Study On The Lyric Accompanied By Music Or Dance In Tang Dynasty

This paper is the study on lyric of Tang Dynasty accompanied by music or dance. It's probed into the relation among dance, music and lyric, and its mutually promoting mechanism and the contribution to the flourish of the poetry of Tang Dynasty. The dissertation is divided into five chapters totally proceeding the treatise from the Ceremonial Music, Qing Yue and Yan Yue and so on.In the introduction, the author first summarizes the total characteristics of the music and the lyric in Tang Dynasty, and its complexity and transition, and its achievements and insufficient in research field.Chapter 1 expounds the flourish of the dance, music and lyric in Tang Dynasty. It discusses the music have a great influence to lyric in three aspects.Chapter 2 discusses the Ceremonial Music of Tang Dynasty has some changing composition compared with before and later periods, and its lyric is impacted by custom. Some lyric adopts the form of the newly-style poem at that time.Chapter 3 delineates the state of Qing Yue in Tang Dynasty, and finds that Qing Yue does not perish, but its influence becomes weak. Fa-qu is the development of Qingyue, but it obviously absorbs the new nutrient of foreign music. The declining music represses the artistic of lyric.Chapter 4 comments on the definitions of Yan Yue and thinks that Mr. Liu Chong-de's view is the most suitable on the circumstance of Yan Yue. Yan Yue mainly includes Jiubuyue or Shibuyue, but the Jiaofangyue that becomes the main source of music of Ci poetry in the future is the most effective.Chapter 5 focuses on the great significance of Yan Yue to literature. There is two forms of verses to match it, one is Shen Shi ,the main form of tidy poem accompanied music and widely accepted by people during Emperor Zhong-zhong to Middle Tang; the other is Quzici, a new form of lyric, appearing in Middle Tang accordingly to the music. After Middle Tang, the tendency of lyric of Yanyue gradually transfers to Quzici from Shen shi.