The Idea of Harmony and Its Musical Expression (with Musical Examples)

摘要

One of the oldest cultural concepts in Chinese civilization is the musician-scholar sitting in his study, playing thegu-qin, and looking across the gnarled pine tree to the lake, the mountains and clouds. The scene is depicted in atreatise, the T’ang-shih-hua-pu, which was printed in the Ming-period. The woodcut adds also the details of anincense burner on the table and a plum-blossom in a vase to indicate early Spring.