Composing the “Qingming Capriccio”: A Composition Based on Zhang Zeduan’s the Qingming Shanghe Tu
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The Qingming Shanghe Tu (the picture of the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival) is one of the most famous paintings in China. It is a painting of the Northern Song Dynasty. It is the only surviving masterpiece of Zhang Zeduan, a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty. It is a national treasure and is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
The music work Qingming Capriccio is composed based on the Qingming Shanghe Tu. The technical approach of the process is transferring the visual arts into auditory sense. Qingming Capriccio consists of four movements corresponding to the four parts of the painting. A number of Chinese traditional instruments are used in the music to create the atmosphere of Chinese landscape painting, such as Dizi, Ruan, Pipa, Yangqin, Guzheng, Horn, Erhu, Zhonghu, Cello, Double Bass, Cymbals, Snare Drum and Bass Durm.
The music has been performed in the theater for more than 2000 people at Qingdao University of Science and Technology in the May of 2023.
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