An Idea of Tao and Qi in I-Ching as a Compositional Strategy.

• Main Authors: LIN, ZI-LUN, 林子倫
• Other Authors: WANG, LO-LUNG
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82ju7e

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 中國音樂學系 === 106 === From the perspective of a composer, this article expounded the relationships between the culture, a composer and his works. How a composer composes a work should rely on his daily life experiences and many of which spring from our culture. How to use these materials in a work relies on creativity of a composer. I-Ching said: “the metaphysics says Tao and the physics says QI”. In this article, the author used this idea to explain how material selections and how it applying in musical creation. According to I-Ching, Tao is a concept to be abstractly revealed in aesthetic, philosophic or central idea of a work, specifically such as tension and structure design. In contrast, Qi revealed elements that are concrete in the works, such as traditional Chinese opera, folk songs, language, etc. A composer could absorb, transfer and/or re-use these materials under the concept of Tao to create his work. In here, Tao and Qi becomes a co-constructed process in musical creation. Further, we used "Tóng qù" and " Wǎng’ 17” as the examples to explain how a composer de-constructed concepts from different sources of materials to reconstructed his own works. Keywords: Tao, Qi , Taiwanese, traditional opera, traditional music.