風に運ばれる音 : 李白の詩にみえる音樂のイメージ

Abstract

Li Po 李白 lived in the Xuan Zhong 玄宗 period of Tang dynasty 唐代 when the court musical cultural level was very high, therefore he must have appreciated the musical culture of that time. So far, Li Po's poems about musical culture has been studied in connection with his personal experience and his real musical ability. Some students of the literature of the Tang dynasty regarded Li Po as the first writer of ci poem 填詞 before the Middle Tang period 中唐. But I want to approach his poems from another angle, the angle is an examination into the way that Li Po wanted to express his musical imagination in his works. Particularly, he liked to describe Chinese wind instrument dizi 笛子. He was the first to use the word of "yu di" 玉笛 many times in his poems. After Li Po, this word was very popular among the poets, because it expressed the free and bright sounds of dizi exactly. Through researching Li Po's works, I conclude that his specific characteristics of the musical description are connected with wind. The sounds Li Po loved were often blown by the wind in his poems. His wind blew the court music from a long distance for his sake, when he was banished to Ye Lang 夜郎 in his later years. Li Po could build a world of musical illusion all his own.