Download or read book Ten Songs Collection Used Chinese Ancient Poetry as Lyrics written by Johnson K. Gao and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are ten songs composed by the author and he used Chinese ancient poems as lyrics. Those poems were written by famous Chinese poets like Confucius, Li Bai, Cao Zhi, Zhang Ji, Wang An-shi, Liu Yu-xi, Su Dong-po, etc. Besides, there are also two Chinese ancient style poems produced by the author.
Download or read book Gao s Happy Wedding Waltz Plus Ancient Poem Songs written by Johnson K. Gao and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The price of this 148 pages' songbook at Amazon and Barnes & Noble bookstores, is set at zero profit. (
Download or read book Learning How to Sing Many Chinese Style Poem Songs Within 20 Minutes written by Johnson K. Gao and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone who writes poems must use the poetry to express his/her mind. Seeking concise use of words, elegant artistic conception, and between upper and lower sentences, numbers, sizes and lengths should be matching, distance should be echoing, movement, stillness and color should be contrasted, rhymes have to meet specific styles. The poems in the Book of Songs have four-character lines, such as "關關雎鳩，在河之洲。窈窕淑女，君子好逑。" There are also prose styles. In Qu Yuan's poems, the exclamatory word "兮" (pronounced as xi or she) is commonly used, such as 《國殤》: "操吳戈兮披犀甲, 車錯轂兮短兵接". There is an exclamation word in every sentence. The whole poem used seven characters in every sentence. Chinese ancient poems after the Tang and Song Dynasties were mostly five-character poems and seven-character poems. Quatrains contain four lines, and verses contain eight lines. Thus, the five-character quatrains have twenty characters; and the five-character verses have forty characters; the seven-character quatrains have 28 characters, and the seven-character verses have 56 characters. This makes it possible to sing different poems with one melody. This article introduces the use of an "All Purpose Melody" to sing many ancient poems. The selected poems include those written by Cao Zhi, Bai Li, Du Fu, Su Dongpo, Du Mu, Mao Zedong, etc., as well as three Chinese translated from English poems. The first part is in 4/4 rhythm songs with the same tune for adding words. The second part is in 6/8 rhythm waltzes with the same tune also to fill in the lyrics. A total of fifty-five songs were collected in this music book. Since "All Purpose Melody" was used, readers can learn how to sing many Chinese style poems in about 20 minutes.
Download or read book Ancient Chinese Poetry Songs written by David Chang and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-19 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten beautiful ancient Chinese poems accompanied by original music scores for your enjoyment.
Download or read book A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems written by Arthur Waley and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This splendid collection of Chinese poetry, accompanied by delightful introductory and descriptive essays, spans more than 1000 years. It brings to life the timeless poetry of many of the well known Chinese poets that have lived throughout the ages. Arthur Waley is the most famous Sinologist who has done most in bringing Chinese poetry to the fore of Western public. Hence, no matter what, Waley's historical importance cannot be overestimated. And he is a competent all-round translator too, as this fine anthology demonstrates, one who has an uncanny ear of transforming Chinese rhythms and rhymes into naturalized English metrics. First published in 1919, this is the book that first alerted the West to the richness and variety of Chinese literature. Arthur Waley (1889-1966), a shy reclusive scholar, was one of the earliest champions of Asian literature in the English-speaking world. A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems has often been cited as an outstanding source for those who enjoy Chinese Poetry.
Download or read book Lullaby Wedding Waltz And Other Fifty Songs written by Johnson K. Gao and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Totally it has 216 pages and 52 songs in this music sheet book. All songs were composed by Johnson K. Gao. Different birthday songs and songs composed for ancient poetry, such that written by Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Yu-yi, Su Shi, Liu Yu-xi, Longfellow, Petofi, etc. are included. For promotion of cultural exchange between the East and the West, past and now. The price of the book is set at none profit level. When the book is sold in the major book stores, like amazon.com and Barnes and Noble Book store, the price is only to cover material used for printing and processing. The author shall earn no any money from sales.
Download or read book Mountain Saint and Water Dragon A memorial posy of my shabby dwarf house written by Johnson K. Gao and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-26 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is an English translation of an ancient Chinese poem "Lou Shi Ming" by Liu Yu-xi (A. D. 772 842) in Tang Dynasty, which means a memorial posy of a shabby chamber. The first two lines of that poem consist of only eight Chinese characters, with the meaning in English as: "A mountain does not necessary to be high, as long as there lives a saint, it will get good fame. A water body does not necessary to be deep, as long as there exists a dragon, it will demonstrate vital spirit." He submitted his English translation version to the "Best Poets 2016", which will be published soon. Further more, due to the reason that ancient Chinese could be rather difficult to understand by western people, or, even modern Chinese people, in order to let more people world widely to know that ancient poem, he used Google translation site and converted his English version and vernacular Chinese language version into German, Japanese, French, Russian, Spanish six languages.
Download or read book Songs of My Heart written by Ji Ruan and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Songs written by Joseph Roe Allen and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph R. Allen's new edition of The Book of Songs restores Arthur Waley's definitive English translations to the original order and structure of the two-thousand-year-old Chinese text. One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs that antiquity has left us. Arthur Waley's translations, now supplemented by fifteen new translations by Allen, are superb; the songs speak to us across millennia with remarkable directness and power. Where the other Confucian classics treat "outward things, deeds, moral precepts, the way the world works", Stephen Owen tells us in his foreword, The Book of Songs is "the Classic of the human heart and the human mind".
Download or read book Songs of the Immortals written by and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A HISTORY OF ANCIENT CHINESE MUSIC AND DANCE written by Wang Ningning and published by American Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Ancient Chinese Music and Dance describes the history of music and dance in ancient China in the past five thousand years in the forms of poems, music and dance. It includes court music and dance, music and dance in drama and folk music and dance. It covers historical and professional knowledge such as music, dance, poetry and drama. The book consists of eleven chapters, from ancient times to the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. In each chapter, there are historical background, music and dance works, people, events, and related poetry and images. The Yellow Emperor created tonality for wind instruments. Emperor Yao and Emperor Shun invented musical instruments qin and se. Duke of Zhou made system of rites and music. Apart from these, music, dance and acrobatics in the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, grand compositions in the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty and music and dance in drama in the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty can all lead us to the long developing process of ancient music and dance. The book was the Project of 2003 National Tenth Five-Year Plan for Art Science in China. It was co-funded by the National Publishing Fund and “China Classics International” of the General Administration of Press and Publication.
Download or read book How to Read Chinese Poetry written by Zong-qi Cai and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci, and qu poems. A comprehensive introduction and extensive thematic table of contents highlight the thematic, formal, and prosodic features of Chinese poetry, and each chapter is written by a scholar who specializes in a particular period or genre. Poems are presented in Chinese and English and are accompanied by a tone-marked romanized version, an explanation of Chinese linguistic and poetic conventions, and recommended reading strategies. Sound recordings of the poems are available online free of charge. These unique features facilitate an intense engagement with Chinese poetical texts and help the reader derive aesthetic pleasure and insight from these works as one could from the original. The companion volume How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook presents 100 famous poems (56 are new selections) in Chinese, English, and romanization, accompanied by prose translation, textual notes, commentaries, and recordings. Contributors: Robert Ashmore (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Zong-qi Cai; Charles Egan (San Francisco State); Ronald Egan (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara); Grace Fong (McGill); David R. Knechtges (Univ. of Washington); Xinda Lian (Denison); Shuen-fu Lin (Univ. of Michigan); William H. Nienhauser Jr. (Univ. of Wisconsin); Maija Bell Samei; Jui-lung Su (National Univ. of Singapore); Wendy Swartz (Columbia); Xiaofei Tian (Harvard); Paula Varsano (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Fusheng Wu (Univ. of Utah)
Download or read book An Introduction to Chinese Poetry written by Michael Fuller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This innovative textbook for learning classical Chinese poetry moves beyond the traditional anthology of poems translated into English and instead brings readers—including those with no knowledge of Chinese—as close as possible to the texture of the poems in their original language. The first two chapters introduce the features of classical Chinese that are important for poetry and then survey the formal and rhetorical conventions of classical poetry. The core chapters present the major poets and poems of the Chinese poetic tradition from earliest times to the lyrics of the Song Dynasty (960–1279).Each chapter begins with an overview of the historical context for the poetry of a particular period and provides a brief biography for each poet. Each of the poems appears in the original Chinese with a word-by-word translation, followed by Michael A. Fuller’s unadorned translation, and a more polished version by modern translators. A question-based study guide highlights the important issues in reading and understanding each particular text.Designed for classroom use and for self-study, the textbook’s goal is to help the reader appreciate both the distinctive voices of the major writers in the Chinese poetic tradition and the grand contours of the development of that tradition."
Download or read book written by 许渊冲 and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent bilingual (English/Chinese) collection of poems features highlights from the history of Chinese poetry arranged by dynasty.
Download or read book Song Without Music written by Qi Song and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Li Qingzhao written by Ronald Egan and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous translations and descriptions of Li Qingzhao are molded by an image of her as lonely wife and bereft widow formed by centuries of manipulation of her work and legacy by scholars and critics (all of them male) to fit their idea of a what a talented woman writer would sound like. The true voice of Li Qingzhao is very different. A new translation and presentation of her is needed to appreciate her genius and to account for the sense that Chinese readers have always had, despite what scholars and critics were saying, about the boldness and originality of her work. The introduction will lay out the problems of critical refashioning and conventionalization of her carried out in the centuries after her death, thus preparing the reader for a new reading. Her songs and poetry will then be presented in a way that breaks free of a narrow autobiographical reading of them, distinguishes between reliable and unreliable attributions, and also shows the great range of her talent by including important prose pieces and seldom read poems. In this way, the standard image of Li Qingzhao, exemplied by a handful of her best known and largely misunderstood works, will be challenged and replaced by a new understanding. The volume will present a literary portrait of Li Qingzhao radically unlike the one in conventional anthologies and literary histories, allowing English readers for the first time to appreciate her distinctiveness as a writer and to properly gauge her achievement as a female alternative, as poet and essayist, to the male literary culture of her day.
Download or read book written by Richard Fu-Sen Yang and published by London : Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1967 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
