Research on Chang 'an Ancient Music

Before 1950s, foreign music circles once thought that the study of Tang Dynasty music could only rely on Japanese elegant music. Since 1954, there have been experts and scholars from Hungary, Japan, Italy, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, Australia, Singapore, Austria and other countries who have changed their views after listening to Chang 'an ancient music. Shah Polci Bance, the former president of the Hungarian Music Association, said after listening to the ancient music in 1954, "This is the ancient symphonic music of China". Professor Liang, a Chinese-American scholar, said: "The music of the Tang Dynasty is not dead, it is still preserved in today's Ann.". 196 1 year 1 1 month, Xi' an chenghuang temple drum music club went to Beijing to perform, and the style of Chang' an ancient music attracted extensive praise and praise from the music circles at home and abroad, thus establishing the reputation of Chang' an ancient music as "the living fossil of world music".

Kishi Nobusuke, a famous Japanese scholar, came to listen to ancient music in 1983. In a letter to a publication, he said, "You can see the expressions of Japanese elegant music in Angu music". British Mr. Zhong Sidi 1986 listens to ancient music. He said: "The British used to learn China music only from Japanese elegant music, but now they turn to China"; He also said: "When I was in London, England, I knew there was a He Jiaying (Ancient Music Society) in Xi 'an." Italian student Raffaella studied ancient music in Xi 'an and spread it widely in Italy after returning home. She introduced the ancient music of He Jiaying in the book Traditional Music of China.

Professor Jiao Jie, an expert in the study of Chang 'an ancient music, said that according to preliminary research, there are four tones in the repertoire and performance of Chang 'an ancient music: six (c) tone, ruler (g) tone, upper (f) tone and five (d) tone. Chang 'an ancient music is recorded in China's Ancient Folk Character Book. Unlike Naxi ancient music, it is only a 600-year-old ancient spectrum, which only records the sound level, has no obvious sound value symbols and does not remember the sound length. Therefore, it is impossible to play music accurately only from the score. Modern people can only look at the music and sigh, and play songs only by word of mouth. However, the notation of Folk Music of Chang 'an Ancient Music is rich, accurate and correct.