A NEW STUDY ON RHYTHMIC STYLE AND ON THE COOPERATION WITH MUSIC ABOUT NEW YUEFU BY BO JUYI — TAKING NEW YUEFU PULLING UP THE SILVER BOTTLE FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE WELL AS AN EXAMPLE

Abstract

This paper takes the rhyme analysis of the famous poem Pulling up the Silver Bottle from the Bottom of the Well in Bo Juyis New Yuefu as an example, discussing three important issues in the study of Bo Juyi’s New Yuefu poetic form: 1) put forward five differences between Bo Juyi’s New Yuefu and traditional Yuefu; 2) put forward “the view that rhyme and passage are closely related” and discusse the characteristics of rhyme segment, which reflects the plot structure of the poem and is highly consistent with the music segment. As a poem of “preparing for music”, the New Yuefu has many similarities with the traditional Yuefu in its poetic form; 3) put forward “the theory of the relationship between Yuefu melody and emotion”. This theory is only applicable to literature with musical accompaniment, such as New Yuefu; 4) put forward that the New Yuefu has “colorful movement theory”.