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Wang Di, born in 1923, is a famous guqinist and ethnomusicologist.

Wang Di

(Ethnomusicologist)

Wang Di, born in 1923, famous

(1923 ~ 2005), famous in China

Ms. Wang Di, as the first generation of scholars of national music research who came out of the Central Conservatory of Music after the founding of New China, did her utmost to rescue and unearth the essence of many endangered national music. She has participated in the compilation of "Guqin Collections", "Biography of Qin People", "Integration of Qin Music", "Examination of Ancient Fingering", "Introduction of Chinese Musical Instruments", "A Preliminary Exploration of Guangling San", "70 Ancient Chinese Songs", "China 222 Folk Songs, as well as the lyricists, lyrics, and lyric parts of the Music Encyclopedia Dictionary, and edited and published the recording materials of the late nine famous lyre vocalists in China in the Guanpinghu Guqin Collection and the Chinese Music Encyclopedia. Ms. Wang Dixian has made an important contribution in inheriting and carrying forward the performance style of the nine guqin sects, inheriting, summarizing and perfecting the piano heritage of the guqin master Mr. Guan Pinghu, especially the excavation, arrangement, production and promotion of the piano songs.

In 1956, he participated in the Guqin interview team led by Mr. Chafuxi. He went through all over the country to conduct a large number of investigations and visits to the guqin materials and the situation of the violinists. In addition to collecting a lot of folk music scores, he also collected seven songs. I was deeply impressed by the need to discover and rescue the art of Qin Ge, so I was determined to devote to the exploration, organization and research of Qin Ge. Under the guidance of Mr. Guan Pinghu, she tried to score the music of Qin Ge and explored and sorted out Huangying Yin and Sauvignon Blanc. "Songs of the Eighteen Husongs" and other piano songs, of which "Songs of the Eighteen Husongs" were sung at a concert organized by the Chinese Musicians Association in 1959 and were welcomed by the audience. Since then, hundreds of songs have been organized. In 1990, he went to Hong Kong to participate in the Asian Art Festival "The Famous Musician Huixiang River" event. In 1983, he published the book "Qin Ge", which contains more than 50 vocals, which has a wide influence in the world of piano. From 1991 to 1992, he was invited to lecture in the United States by the Harvard Department of Music in the United States; in 2001, he held a "Qin Ge Qin Yun" concert in Taipei and twice performed and lectured in Taiwan; after many years of hard work, Ms. Wang Di successively from "Zhe Yin Yin Shi" Discover and sort out more than 100 piano songs from more than 20 kinds of widely-sold musical notation in the past, such as the Zi Qin Pu, Feng Xuan Xuan Pin, Dong Qin Qin Pu, Song Song Qinpu, and Zhang Jutian Qin Pu. First, please ask someone to write one by one in three lines of notation, sheet music, and lyrics to facilitate singing and playing. Regrettably, Ms. Wang has easily died in 2005 due to illness due to the fact that she has not yet selected and arranged the catalogue.

In the mid-1970s, Ms. Wang Di used to select some easy-to-sing lyric songs for teaching, explaining the meaning and mood of the lyrics to the students step by step, demonstrating the charm of singing and the processing of music, and training a group of outstanding lyricists. Family. Ms. Wang Di is a rigorous scholar and a low-key student of life. As a disciple of Guan Pinghu, a master of the nine doubts, she is worthy of her teachers and students, but she is sorry for herself: As a well-known Guqinist in the country, she did not record a performance CD for herself. There is no video product. Her selfless dedication and meticulous work and teaching have left valuable materials for the outstanding representatives of traditional Chinese culture, the world-class human oral and intangible cultural heritage, the inheritance of Chinese Guqin art.