What representative works of Yuan music are as follows:
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Introduction to Yuan Opera:
Yuan Opera is a literary and artistic form that was popular in the Yuan Dynasty. It is the essence of the wisdom of Confucian scholars in the Yuan Dynasty. It includes Zaju and Sanqu, and sometimes refers specifically to Zaju. Zaju, a performance form characterized by comedy in the Song Dynasty, developed into a form of opera in the Yuan Dynasty. Each volume is mainly composed of four folds, with additional wedges at the beginning or between folds. Each fold is composed of Beiqu suites and binbai with the same gong tune and the same rhyme.
For example, "The Injustice of Dou E" by Guan Hanqing. Popular in Dadu (now Beijing). There were also dramas in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but each copy was not limited to 40% off. Sanqu is a form of music without guest verses that was popular in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. The content is mainly lyrical, with two types: Xiao Ling and Tao Shu.
Basic meaning:
Yuan opera was originally a "street tune" or "village tune" spread among the people. As the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty and took over the Central Plains, it spread in the vast north and south areas centered on Dadu (today's Beijing) and Lin'an (today's Hangzhou). Yuan music has a strict metrical formula, and each piece of music has fixed format requirements in terms of sentence structure, number of words, equivalence, etc.
Although there is a fixed pattern, it is not rigid. It is allowed to add lining words in the fixed pattern, and some qupai can also add sentences. The rhyme is allowed to rhyme with flat and oblique rhymes. Compared with the quatrains of rhythmic poetry and Song lyrics, it has greater flexibility. Therefore, readers can find that two songs of the same "qupai" sometimes have different number of words, which is why (among the same tune, the one with the least number of words is the standard fixed format).
It began in the Song Dynasty and reached its peak in the Yuan Dynasty. Generally speaking, Yuan dramas and Sanqus are collectively called Yuanqus. Zajus are operas and Sanqus are poems, which belong to different literary genres. But there are similarities. Both of them use Northern Song as the singing form.
Therefore, Sanqu and drama are also called Yuefu. Sanqu is the main body of literature in the Yuan Dynasty. However, the achievements and influence of Yuan Zaju far exceed that of Sanqu, so some people use "Yuan Opera" to refer to Zaju alone, and Yuan Opera is also the "Yuan Dynasty Opera".