Using metaphor to describe and render the characteristics of sound can turn unfamiliar melody into familiar sound and concretize and visualize abstract sound. For example, Li Bai's "Listening to the Shu Monk Playing the Piano" and "When you touch the string, the breath of a thousand valleys is loose". This sentence positively describes the Shu monk playing the piano. "Waving" is the action of playing the piano. Compared with the bursts of pines in Qian Shan, the sound of the piano is clear, majestic and powerful.
Another example is Bai Juyi's Pipa Trip, "The big strings are like rain songs, and the small strings are like secret words. Humming, whispering-and then mixing together, like pouring large and small pearls into a plate of jade. Between Guan Ying's words, the bottom of the flower is slippery, so you can't swallow the spring scenery and flow under the ice. The ice spring is cold and astringent, and the strings condense, and the condensation will never stop. The depth of sadness and the hiding of sadness are more told in silence than in voice. A silver vase suddenly burst, pouring out a stream of water, jumping out of the conflict and blow between armored horses and weapons. When this song ends, be careful, all four strings make a sound, just like tearing silk. " From "the big string sounds like rain" to "all four strings sound like tearing silk" * * * Fourteen sentences, the sound of a shower, the sound of a whisper, the sound of a pearl falling, the sound of a warbler, the sound of a choking spring, the sound of a sword hitting each other and the sound of tears are used to compare the sound of a pipa. From fast writing to slow writing, to delicate writing, to silence, to sudden storms, and then to the last stroke, it came to an abrupt end. The poet used a series of vivid metaphors here to make the abstract musical image vivid at once. It makes listeners feel sad, relieved, relaxed and excited. Appropriate use of metaphor, with sound metaphor, its voice jumps from the paper, making people smell its voice and face it squarely.
Synaesthesia is to communicate the feelings of different senses and cause the transfer of feelings through association. "Writing feelings with feelings" and "Synaesthesia" will turn invisible sounds into visible things and let readers "see" their own voices vividly. In synaesthesia, color seems to have temperature, sound seems to have image, and cold and warm seems to have weight.
For example, Li He's "Li Ping's Quotations" "Kunshan is a broken phoenix, Furong cries, and Lan Xiang laughs." Although these two sentences are written in front of music, they have their own characteristics. "Kunshan Jade Broken Fengming", written in voice. Very awkward, sometimes all the strings are screaming, noisy, like landslides, difficult to distinguish; Sometimes a string sounds alone, just like a phoenix chirping, shaking trees, very sonorous. The sound of "Jade Fragments" is crisp and pleasant; "Fengming" means that its voice is gentle and melodious. "hibiscus hangs down and smiles", using synaesthesia to write sounds in shape. The hibiscus flowers with dewdrops seem to be crying with tears, and the blooming orchids look like they are laughing with their mouths open. The poet used "Lotus Dew" to describe the sadness of the piano, while "Lan Xiang Smile" showed the elegance and joy of the piano. These descriptions turn hearing into vision, not only for hearing, but also for witnessing. It's great to have both form and spirit.
Another example: Han Yu's "Listening to the Smart Teacher Playing the Piano", "I am close to my children, and I feel sorry for you." Like the wind, who is singing the flag? A soldier likes to fight the king with his sword. Clouds and catkins have no roots, and heaven remains our neighbourhood. "The sound of the piano curled up, soft and delicate, as if young children were whispering and telling each other their hearts when they were intimate. Suddenly, the piano suddenly became high-spirited, just like a brave soldier flying into the enemy line, which was extraordinary. Then the sound of the piano changed from rigid to soft, and the ups and downs echoed. Just like after a bloody battle, the enemy's breath was completely swept away. At this time, the sky is clear and sunny, with a few white clouds floating in the distance and catkins floating nearby. They are floating, elusive, but fascinating. The whole poem is full of ups and downs, such as the Qiantang River tide, which is choppy and changeable. It is a disparity situation, which is expressed by children's affection, imitated by heroism, embodied by extraordinary thoughts, or ups and downs of joys and sorrows, one soft and one rigid, one happy and one sad. Here, the music that appeals to hearing is transformed into a moving picture, which makes people feel personally and empathize.
Contrast is a method of profile description, which sets off the main object by rendering, making the performance more vivid and prominent. In the description of music, scenery is often used to set off the atmosphere and show the touching effect of music.
For example, Bai Juyi's pipa line "The east ship and the west ship are silent, and we see the white autumn moon entering the river." The performance is over, and the listeners are still immersed in the realm of music. There was silence around, except for a bright moon reflected in the water.
Another example is Li Bai's "Listening to the Shu Monk Playing the Piano" and "Although the mountains are dark, autumn clouds pile up the sky, I don't feel any change." The crisp and smooth piano music faded away, and the bell rang at dusk, only to find that it was getting late. After listening to monk Shu playing the piano, the poet looked around. I don't know when it started, the castle peak was covered with dusk, and the gloomy autumn clouds overlapped and covered the sky. I feel how time flies.
Another example is Su Shi's "Picking Mulberry Seeds, Runzhou Duojing Building Meets Sun Juyuan", "Stop to listen to the pipa and twist it gently. The drunken face melts in spring and shines obliquely on Jiang Tianyi. " The ending sentence of this word "a touch of red on the river" is a kind of landscape language, which can be regarded as both the realism of "sunset glow" at that time and the description of Miss Hu Qin's "drunken face". Its beauty lies in "calling it vague", which is elusive and intriguing. After the performance, the audience was still immersed in the aftertaste of the music. At this moment, there was a moment of silence, only to see the sunset obliquely shining on the river, and the water surface reflected a touch of red light from the sunset. From the side, it shows that the wonderful timbre of pipa is fascinating, and the songs are endless and the words are endless, leaving readers with a broad aftertaste.
Brief description is like an echo wall, which maps out the described "sound" so that readers can taste its sound from "looking back". This effect can not be achieved by direct description.
With the help of imagination, the poet brings the reader into a broad, profound, magical and magnificent realm, and combines the virtual with the real to create a subtle and ethereal artistic realm.
For example, Li He's "Li Ping Yong Yin" and "Nu Wa tried to mend the sky by refining stones, which made the autumn rain rock-breaking. Dream into the holy mountain to teach the gods, and the old fish dance with the waves. Wu sleeps in osmanthus trees and flies barefoot to wet cold rabbits. " "Nu Wa tempered the stone to make up the sky, and the stone broke the sky to tease the autumn rain." The music spread to the sky, and Nu Wa, who was mending the sky, was fascinated and forgot her duty. As a result, the earth cracked and the autumn rain poured down. How bold, unexpected and touching this imagination is. The word "tease" closely links the powerful charm of music with the above-mentioned strange and magnificent scenes. Moreover, the scene of the rock-breaking autumn rain can also be regarded as a manifestation of the musical image.
"Dream into the holy mountain to teach the gods, and the old fish dance in the waves." Wonderful music was introduced into the holy mountain, and the gods were moved by it; The music is so profound that "the old fish dances thin". The poet decorated the ichthyosaur with the words "old" and "thin", which seemed dull and shriveled, but it had a completely opposite artistic effect, making the musical image fuller. Old fish and thin jiaozi were originally weak and weak, and their movements were difficult, but they danced with the melody of music. This unexpected image description makes the invisible and wonderful sound appear in relief to the readers.
"Wu sleeps on the laurel tree, barefoot, flying sideways to wet and cold rabbits." Further contrast: WU GANG, exhausted after cutting the laurel tree for a day, leaned against the laurel tree for a long time and forgot to sleep; Jade rabbit crouched aside, letting the dew in the middle of the night keep falling on her body, soaking her sweater and refusing to leave.
These beautiful images full of thoughts and feelings, like the bright moon projected on the water, are deeply imprinted in the readers' hearts, distant, amusing and memorable.
To compose music with classics is to express one's wishes or feelings with the help of some historical figures, myths and legends, fables, etc. It is elegant, interesting and implicit, which can make the language more concise, concise and far-reaching.
For example, the phrase "I heard him in the Qingxi River" in Li Bai's Listening to the Shu Monk Playing the Piano literally means that after listening to the Shu Monk's piano, a person's heart seems to be washed by running water, carefree and happy. However, it has a deeper meaning, including an ancient allusion, that is, the allusion of "high mountains and flowing water" in Liezi, which uses music as a medium to express the friendship between Shu monks and themselves. The word "I heard him in the purified stream" is subtle and natural. Although allusions are used, it is not difficult, which shows Li Bai's superb language skills.
I heard him in the cold bell is also a classic. "Frost Bell" comes from Shan Hai Jing and Zhongshan Jing: "Fengshan ... has nine bells, which is to know first frost." Guo Pu's note: "The first frost rings, so you know what it says." The word "frost bell" points out the season, which echoes the following "cloudy autumn and sky" "I heard him in the cold bell" means that after the music is over, the reverberation will blend with the temple bell at dusk. This poem is written with the sound of a piano and bells, and it also means a bosom friend.
Write the audience's subjective feelings and reactions to the piano, and set off the beautiful sound of the piano from the side.
For example, Han Yu's "Listening to the Smart Teacher Playing the Piano" has two ears, so I don't have to listen to diaosi. Listening to your music, the piano suddenly rose, making people sit down low. In the panic, I reached out to block my chin, and tears had already poured into my eyes. Clever and sincere, there is no ice charcoal in my intestines! "Yu Yu" is a self-deprecating remark, which shows that you don't know music and can't understand the mystery. Nevertheless, I was deeply moved by Ying Shi's piano sound. At first, I sat up uncomfortably. Later, tears ran down my skirt, and I kept dripping. This intense emotional stimulation was unbearable, so I tried to stop it with my hands and couldn't bear to listen. The last two sentences further enhanced Ying Shi's superb piano skills. Ice and charcoal can't be in the same furnace, but the clever teacher's piano music brings people into the paradise of joy for a while, and then throws people into the hell of suffering, just like throwing ice and charcoal into the listener's chest at the same time, which makes people unable to bear such emotional fluctuations.
The realm of music, first, the realm of music, the music world composed of the sound and rhythm of music; One is the realm outside the song, that is, the response of music to the audience's own feelings. The two complement each other, which makes the poetic mood far-reaching and lasting. Poets use a variety of expression skills to conjure up the sounds of nature, create a swan song on earth, and create a moving music world for us. Let's walk into the music in ancient poetry and feel its infinite charm.