A Study On The Labeled Melody Of The Palace Of Eternal Life

The Palace of Eternal Life is one of the four greatest classical drama in China.During nearly 350 years,this has resulted in a large number of labeled melodies,which were edited by literati or actors/actresses,and formed a numerous volumes,presenting a splendid sight.This article is written from two aspects: the editions and the music of the The Palace of Eternal Life's labeled melody.On the one hand,we sorted,analysed and researched the editions,authors,book nature,time of 64 labeled melodies,including 4 kinds of block-printed books,1 types of movable-type printing,7 kinds of lithographic books,50 copies of copy books,1 kinds of blueprint and 1 copies of Oil print,and found out the art selection and “tailoring” techniques of them through the comparative analysis of the name and rhythm of Tunes,Gong Diao,Flute Tune,suriko name,selected tunes and so on,to reflect the change of the times mood and audience appreciation requirements,on the other hand,we selected the key suriko Heard The Bell Ringing and translated all the tunes of Wu Ling Flower of suriko Heard The Bell Ringing in all the labeled melody and compared them,finding the inheritance relationship between the main melody of main chamber,namely Nan Ci Ding Lv and Na Shu Ying Labeled Melody,Jiu Gong Da Cheng Nan Bei Ci Gong Pu and Yin Xiang Tang Labeled Melody,besides that approximately 20 labeled melodies were highly similar to Na Shu Ying Labeled Melody,and so on.Eventually,according to the comparative study of the music version of The Palace of Eternal Life's labeled melody,we obtained the tracks of change both on edition and music of The Palace of Eternal Life's labeled melody,and make a map of the source and stream of the music spectrum of The Palace of Eternal Life's labeled melody: the map is divided into three lines,and the first line is one pulse of the Qing Gong spectrum from Nan Ci Ding Lv,Jiu Gong Da Cheng Nan Bei Ci Gong Pu,Yin Xiang Tang Labeled Melody,Na Shu Ying Labeled Melody to Su Lu Labeled Melody,and the second line is a pulse of the opera spectrum presented by E Yun Pavillion Labeled Melody,and the last line is a pulse of combination of the Qing Gong and opera spectrum presented by Ji Cheng Labeled Melody.