Form
Qu (Chinese Verse Drama Form)
Also Known As Also romanized ch'ü (Wade-Giles).
East Asian Verse Forms
A Chinese verse form descended from ci but freer, permitting colloquial diction, added filler syllables and a wider popular register, written to Yuan-dynasty musical modes and used both as independent lyric verse (sanqu) and as the sung verse of Yuan dynasty drama (zaju).
Facts
Place of OriginChina, Yuan dynasty (13th-14th century). 1 StructureLines set to a fixed musical mode as in ci, but admitting extra colloquial filler syllables and vernacular diction not permitted in ci. 1 Notable ExampleThe sanqu verses of Guan Hanqing, also a leading Yuan zaju dramatist. 1 Connections
Form Of Genre
Drama, Genres Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
Influenced By
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sources
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica
Qu (Poetry) (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)Names and types sectionQuote, Names and types section
Qu (Chinese: 曲; pinyin: qǔ; Wade-Giles: ch'ü) form of poetry from the Yuan Dynasty may be called 元曲 (Yuánqǔ; Yüan-ch'ü).
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