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An Analysis of Musical Composition Pattern on The Book of Songs

OU Lan-xiang

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This article, from music perspective, interpreted The Book of Songs and believed that it was the first words of song book in Chinese history. Analyzing The Book of Songs from aspects of sentence rhythm, metre and rhyme transformation, and dividing chapters, this paper also believed that repetition on the same rhyme was its basic pattern, on which the pattern of following generation folk songs were based.

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Key concepts: Rhyme, Repetition (rhetorical device), Rhythm, Composition (language), Literature, Musical, Perspective (graphical), Sentence