Chinese Culture Project – The first project to promote Chinese poetry on Steemit - Music part! 《樂筆詩塾》 – Steemit首個中國詩歌推廣計劃 - 音樂部份！

Tang poetry is a greatest treasure of Chinese culture, but the structure and words are all different from the modern language. My objective is use music to extend and promote these masterpieces to people all over the world!

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the political power was unified. Especially in the Tang Dynasty, with political stability and economic prosperity, the rulers pursued an outlooking policy and advocated to absorb culture beyond their city. With the integration of the music and culture from other ethnic groups that had been breeding since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, music as the core of literture and culture became prominent during the Tang Dynasty. Performers sang the poems of the Tang Dynasty along music at that time, and the poets measured their success based on the the popularity of the songs that used their poems as lyrics.

I will base the poem on two different dialects, Mandarin and Cantonese to compose the melody. And then depending on the meaning and the feel of the poem to create the arrangement! The style will mainly be modern music, such as Orchestral, Pop, Rock, or Country music. I think the contemporary combination will surprise you!

In Chinese Music, we use five notes only. On the pentatonic scale, it corresponds roughly to g?ng(do)、sh?ng(re)、jue(mi)、zh?(so)、y?(la), the same as the five black keys on the piano. So I will mainly use these five notes to compose the melody. Many people will have two methods to compose a song, one is to compose the melody first, then fill in the lyrics and do the music arrangement. This method is commonly used by those who have the music theory and knowledge. The alternate method is often used in a band, they will compose the chord for the whole song first, then compose the melody and lyric for the song accordingly! For this project, I will use a third method that composes the melody based on the lyrics (Chinese Poem). It is not a easy job, but I will try my best to do it well!

The other element is the arrangment part, nowadays we have four main parts in a song. Melody, drum, bass, piano and guitar, and often there is also the EDM (Electronic dance music) effect. For me, the most time consuming part to arrange a song is to find and listen for suitable sound effects. For example, there must be a thousand types of drum beat, so I need to choose the most suitable one for my song! Of course practise make things perfect, I will keep on doing it until you like it!

As for my music background, I play the piano, violin and bass. I hope it will be helpful in this project. Please feel free to give me some suggestion after you have listened my songs, thanks!

Finally, thank you to all my partners, @aaronli, @livinguktaiwan, @nanosesame, and @perlia, they give me a chance to start this project!

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唐詩是中國文化的寶庫，但其結構或詞彙與現代語言不盡相同，我的想法是用音樂來推擴和延續這個偉大的歷史遺產到世界各地！

隋唐兩代政權統一，特別是唐代，政治穩定經濟興旺，統治者奉行開放政策，勇於吸收外城文化，加上魏晉以來已經孕育著的各族音樂文化融合打基礎，終於萌發了以歌舞音樂為主要標誌的音樂藝術的全面發展的高峰。唐詩在當時是可以入樂歌唱的，當時歌伎曾以能歌名家詩為快，詩人也以自己的詩作入樂後流傳之廣來衡量自己的寫作水平。

我會用兩種語言，普通話和廣東話來創作旋律，然後根據這首詩的意義和感覺來編曲！ 樂曲風格主要是現代音樂，如管弦樂、流行音樂、搖滾樂或鄉村音樂， 我想這新潁的組合會帶給你一些驚喜！

在中國音樂中，我們只使用這五個音符，五音音階，大致對應於?（do）、商（re）、角（mi）、徵（so）、羽（la），就像你在鋼琴上只彈奏黑色的鍵一樣，所以我主要會用這五個音符組成旋律。大多數人會用兩種方式來作歌曲，一)是首先譜寫旋律，然後填寫和弦來編曲，這種方式是被具有音樂理論知識的人所使用。通常在樂隊中使用的另一種方式是，他們會首先為整首歌曲組成和弦，然後將旋律和歌詞融入歌曲中！但是對於這個項目，我會用第三種方式組成歌詞（中國的詩）。這不是一件容易的事，我會盡力做好！

另一方面是安排部分，現在我們在一首歌中有四個主要部分，旋律，鼓，貝斯，鋼琴和吉他，最後一部分是EDM（電子舞曲）效果，對我而言，安排歌曲花最多時間的是找取一些合適的音效。例如，有一千個鼓點的聲音源，我便需要在歌曲中選擇最合適的一個！當然，練習會讓事情變得更好，我會做到這一點，直到你喜歡它！

就我的音樂知識而言，我會鋼琴、小提琴及參與一些樂隊作為低音結他的演出經驗，希望對這個項目有所幫助。 聽完我的歌曲後，請隨時給我一些建議，謝謝！

最後，感謝所有我的合作夥伴@aaronli，@livinguktaiwan，@nanosesame和@perlia，他們讓我有機會開始這個項目！

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