A Dream of Red Mansions Through the Eyes of a Musician
by Meng Fanyu
About This Novel
This book is based on the classic literary masterpiece "A Dream of Red Mansions", combined with Zhi Pi, and the development history of ancient Chinese music, to comprehensively sort out the musical and cultural events in "A Dream of Red Mansions", and to deeply interpret the close relationship between "A Dream of Red Mansions" and traditional Chinese music culture. At the same time, he also expanded his research horizons to include "A Dream of Red Mansions" after it was written, and analyzed its profound impact on Chinese music. The book has nine chapters in total. It conducts in-depth research on many issues related to "A Dream of Red Mansions" and Chinese music culture from aspects such as music aesthetics, musicians, singing culture, instrumental music culture, ritual music, music inheritance, music terminology and allusions, the author's musical accomplishment and its impact on the creation of the work, and "A Dream of Red Mansions"'s feedback to Chinese music culture. This book is the first monograph to systematically study the musical culture of "Dream of Red Mansions". This study fills a major gap in the study of Red Mansions in the past century.
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