Music Analysis and the Value of Spirituality—Sujech’on and Related Musical Pieces
Date Issued
2004-11-05
Date
2004-11-05
Author(s)
Abstract
This project purports to investigate how the spiritual value and meaning of the Korean court music Sujech’on and music of similar effects (such as Chinese traditional nanguan music) are achieved through its sound organization. The “value of spirituality” here refers to a kind of majestic, elegant, stable and peaceful quality that a listener senses in a piece of music or feels to be affected by listening to it. Sujech’on and nanguan music are often said to have such spiritual value in documents, reports, and in experiences of musicians and listeners including myself. Therefore, this project will analyze Sujech’on and a nanguan piece “Dong Tian Han, ” in terms of their pitch and melodic organization, rhythmic patterns, timbre, dynamic changes, and the overall structure of Sujech’on. The result will then be interpreted from the perspective of spirituality. In other words, the analysis will be related to the “majestic, great, elegant, delicate, peaceful,” and/or even disposition regulating qualities indicated in documents and by musicians, in order to understand what kinds of musical processes contribute to the music’s spiritual quality.
Subjects
music analysis
music and spirituality
Sujech’on
nanguan music
music aesthetics and criticism
Publisher
臺北市：國立臺灣大學音樂學研究所
Description
計畫年度：91;起迄日期：2002-08-01/2004-07-31
Type
report
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