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From growing grain and shared tastes to a shared response. Creative direction: literary art song · long-phrase breathing · guqin, guitar and celloWhat do these music words mean? ↓
Differences are approached through soil, rain and cultivation rather than attributed simply to nature. Taste, hearing and sight lead toward a question about shared recognition in the heart. Everyday sensations gradually support an abstract argument.
Literary art song is the creative direction here: words, voice and accompaniment shaping an argument, not a ranking of musical worth. The text’s discussion of hearing does not certify a technique in this recording. Follow breathing within long sentences and the space left around successive comparisons.
Art song does not mean a song superior to others. Follow the sensory comparisons, then how voice and accompaniment shape long sentences. Knowing a formal scheme is not an entrance requirement.
Art song · words, voice and accompaniment · a little more An art song brings text, voice and instrumental accompaniment together; poetry is common in the traditional repertoire. Art does not rank songs, and the term does not mean opera. Here, literary art song is our editorial reading of the combined creative label, not certification of a fixed Western form.
Try listening: Follow a sentence, then ask whether accompaniment continues, answers or leaves space for it. Naming instruments is optional.
Art Song Preservation Society of New York · What Is Art Song? (PDF p.4) ↗ Texture · how parts fit together · a little more Texture is how musical parts combine. Notice what leads and what accompanies it, then how the space around a melody changes as parts enter or leave.
Carnegie Hall · Listen and Learn ↗ Read the lyrics [Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
孟子曰：「富歲，子弟多賴；兇歲，子弟多暴。非天之降才爾殊也，其所以陷溺其心者然也。今夫麰麥，播種而耘之，其地同，樹之時又同，浡然而生，至於日至之時，皆熟矣。雖有不同，則地有肥磽，雨露之養，人事之不齊也。
故凡同類者，舉相似也，何獨至於人而疑之？聖人與我同類者。故龍子曰：『不知足而為屨，我知其不為蕢也。』屨之相似，天下之足同也。
[Verse 2]
口之於味，有同嗜也，易牙先得我口之所嗜者也。如使口之於味也，其性與人殊，若犬馬之與我不同類也，則天下何嗜皆從易牙之於味也？至於味，天下期於易牙，是天下之口相似也。
惟耳亦然，至於聲，天下期於師曠，是天下之耳相似也。惟目亦然，至於子都，天下莫不知其姣也；不知子都之姣者，無目者也。
[Instrumental Interlude]
[Verse 3]
故曰：口之於味也，有同嗜焉；耳之於聲也，有同聽焉；目之於色也，有同美焉。至於心，獨無所同然乎？心之所同然者，何也？謂：理也，義也。
聖人先得我心之所同然耳。故理義之悅我心，猶芻豢之悅我口。」
[Instrumental Outro]
