The Music Discourse And Political Game In Six Reforms Of Song Music

The exceptional music phenomenon of the Northern Song Dynasty is formed by the lasting debate in the imperial court and several drastic reforms.Each reform of the classic court music has different meaning in the different period and political environment in the Northern Song Dynasty.The six musical reforms in the Northern Song Dynasty are mainly focused on turning up the temperament.However,under the influence of cultural concepts and political parties,the scholar-bureaucrats launched the game in music for several times for the purpose of seizing the political discourse power implied in the class court music.The paper intends to explain the special implications of this music culture phenomenon from the following aspects:The introduction part organizes and summarizes the present research situation in the academia about the six reforms of the class court music in the Northern Song Dynasty,and raises the problems expected to be solved.According to the time line,the first chapter of the main body organizes and contrasts the several debates of the class court music over a time span of the Northern Song Dynasty.Then the paper objectively analyzes the concepts and beliefs which have influenced the emergence of large-scale and consistent music debates and the political meaning of the music debate.The second chapter is the case micro analysis of three parts:the political observation of the music debate;the party disputes among the scholar-bureaucrats;music personnel transfer in the music debate.Through the analysis,the paper discusses how scholar-bureaucrats have influenced the function of the class court music under the changing political mechanism.The third chapter interprets the standard pitch of Huangzhong and the identification of scholar-bureaucrats in the political context,and reiterates the research meaning of the topic.