英文摘要
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Focused on the importance of qu pieces of northern qu music's final movements, this paper compares and contrasts the ”Beiciguangzhengpu”, the ”Taihezhengyinpu”, the ”Jiugongdachengbeicipu”, the ”Beicijianpu”, and the ”Beiquxinpu”. Every qu pieces of the final movements collected in Qing scholar Li Yu's ”Beiciguangzhengpu” has its prototype qu piece; the diverse qu pieces are actually formed through combination, addition, subtraction, or variation of the prototype pieces. The origins these qu pieces and the qu pieces of the final movements in Li's chuanqi works prove that northern qu undergoes transformations with time and that Li assembles not only northern qu pieces but different qu pieces and Chinese opera pieces in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. The condition of these qu pieces agrees with that of Li's Chinese operas and the few Kunqu operas that catch on after Li dies. The changes of the northern qu final movements are in fact made only for demonstrating all the possible changes of qu pieces. Li's pursuit of perfection is commendable, but it also makes his ”Beiciguangzhengpu” unsystematic and disorganized. The northern qu that the early Qing opera experts recognize, after traveling from the Yuan to the Qing Dynasty and from the northern to the southern China, has actually gone through essential changes that make it different from northern qu's original appearance.
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