The Influence of Chinese Palindrome Poem on Musical Structure

Wang Haiyue, Lee Chie Tsang Isaiah

2019

Abstract

Palindrome poetry is one of the rhetorical devices used in Chinese and is called the "Mirror Canon "in the West, a close relationship with music. The structure and creative techniques of the Palindrome Poetry can be seen in music.It is reflected in the musical structures from single form to the rondo form. As one of the Chinese Special Poems, Palindrome poem is a unique genre with change the order of words regularly in Chinese classical poetry, produced in the early 1700s during the Jin Dynasty (266 A.D. – 420 A.D.). .With the continuous development of the standard in literature and art, the emergence of special poetry become more and more frequent.The structural form of the palindrome poem includes different types The way of reading or backward reading of the Palindromes has different order of words or units of sound and able to produce different meanings. My musical thinking has been inspired by the structure of palindrome The inspiration for Palindrome poetry is not only reflected in the structure but also in the concept of work.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Haiyue W. and Isaiah L. (2019). The Influence of Chinese Palindrome Poem on Musical Structure.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: ICONARTIES, ISBN 978-989-758-450-3, pages 505-511. DOI: 10.5220/0009446805050511

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iconarties19,
author={Wang Haiyue and Lee Chie Tsang Isaiah},
title={The Influence of Chinese Palindrome Poem on Musical Structure},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: ICONARTIES,},
year={2019},
pages={505-511},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009446805050511},
isbn={978-989-758-450-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: ICONARTIES,
TI - The Influence of Chinese Palindrome Poem on Musical Structure
SN - 978-989-758-450-3
AU - Haiyue W.
AU - Isaiah L.
PY - 2019
SP - 505
EP - 511
DO - 10.5220/0009446805050511