Shen Kuo's Music Studies

Shen Kuo is a famous scientist and politician in the Northern Song Dynasty.His book "Mengxi Bi Tan" has received much attention since its inception.Shen Kuo's discussion of music is mainly concentrated in the 41 music titles in Volume 5 and Volume 6 of “Meng Xi Bi Tan”.Through summarizing,summarizing and analyzing the music items,summed up Shen Kuo's numerous achievements in music,and further pointed out Shen Kuo's music theory's important status and far-reaching influence in the development of Chinese music history.This article through the careful analysis of the "Meng Xi Bi Tan" music items,Shen Kuo's musical achievements can be divided into six aspects of music rhythm,musical instruments,music,music technology,music academic analysis,music aesthetics thinking.The main part of the Leluq study is Lü,Tiao,and Pai;his most important contribution to Shen Kuo's is the record of the 28 th tune in the Northern Song Dynasty.In the instrumental part,he recorded five types of instruments: flutes,drums,pianos,bells,and cymbals.There are a total of eleven musical instruments.The focus of the records is mainly on the name,shape,and performance of the instrument.Two types of music are recorded in the music section: Military Song and Daqu.The music art moThe music technology section focuses on the related knowledge of music acoustics and instrumental acoustics in music entries.In the music academic part of the examination is to test the music and music allusions,focusing on the "original pipa song" the origin of the argument and the "Yangchun white snow" test.Shen Kuo's musical aesthetics thoughts include three aspects: the principle of "sound words follow each other" in song creation;the artistic criteria of "soundless in sound and sound in words" in song singing;"in terms of instrumental music performance " The aesthetic requirements.The music art moves from the court to the folk.As a material carrier for people to start music activities,musical instruments have also developed rapidly.The Tang dynasty was the most glorious era for the integration of music of all ethnic groups in our country's history.The Northern Song Dynasty was a splendid era for the development of song and song music and orchestral music.It was a continuation of the musical art peak in the Tang dynasty,Shen Kuo made outstanding contributions to it.