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tiffannnnyyyyyy

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What was the impact of communist-led reforms on the practice of Buddhism?
 
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How does the music exemplify the socialist realist style that predominated in China from the 1940s until the early 1990s? How does the composer show close ties to European classical music?
 
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Answer to Question 1

 Positive: new state supported recording of Buddhist music, and
 Negative: monks were persecuted and dismissed from their posts; temples struggle to maintain their activities, including chanting and some instrumental ensemble performance; communist suppression led to the migration of Buddhist monks to Taiwan and subsequent renewal of Buddhist traditions there
Pasibutbut Singing of the Bunum People
CD 2:17 Pasibutbut Prayer for a Rich Millet Harvest (Excerpt of ritual prayer by Taiwanese aboriginal society)

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 Under the socialist realist style music along with the other arts was supposed to inspire social change by providing positive images of the new communist society toward which reform aimed . . . Art was not to be created for art's sake and was to be open to the understanding of the normal people. There were several overlaps with national music in expressing a Chinese theme and use of modern methods and techniques.
Liao's systematic use of 24 pentatonic-based modes in a set of piano preludesthe piano itself is a Western inventionparallels sets of preludes by European classical composers such as J. S. Bach, Chopin, and Debussy that explored each major/minor key in a systematic way.




tiffannnnyyyyyy

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Reply 2 on: Jul 25, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)


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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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