The Research On Shenkuo's Scientific And Technological Achievement Of Music

Science and technology play a vital role in the development of music art. However, they have so far been neglected by music researchers, according to the musical studies available. To illustrate the propelling function of science and technology in music development, this thesis makes an exploration based on the musical technological achievement by Shen Kuo, a Song Dynasty scientist. Musical science and technology refer to the natural science theories and technologies applied to the music domains. Shen Kuo's contributions relevant to music are mainly collected in his work MengXiBiTan. This thesis, through collecting, combing and analyzing the scientific and technological historical data of music in MengXiBiTan, summarizes Shen Kuo's scientific and technological achievement of music. It also discusses the interaction of science and technology and music art, pointing out the importance of music science and technology studies.This thesis consists of four parts. The first part makes a brief introduction to Shen Kuo's scientific and technological career, sums up his scientific and technical achievements; the second part combs the scientific and technological historical data relevant to music from the extant writings of Shen Kuo, extracting out the main items, classifying and briefly noting them; the third part is the focal point of this thesis, which explores thoroughly the scientific and technological historical data of music in MengXiBiTan, probes into Shen Kuo's scientific and technological achievement of music from multiple respects; the fourth part serves as the conclusion: by looking at Shen Kuo's music scientific and technical achievement, it reveals the close relationship between music art development and science and technology, thus testifying the realistic meaning and wide prospect of music science and technology studies.