Georgie Opera Prosody

This article studies Qiao Ji's application of rhymes in his operas. Firstly, the article compares songs of same melody-brand for the sake of determining rhyme-foot. It takes nineteen rhyme-components of Zhong Yuan Phonology as its frame to study which rhyme-component the rhyme words should belong to, the mutual rhyme phenomenon of different rhyme-components in Qiao Ji 'operas and those places which Zhong Yuan Phonology might have neglected. Secondly, by contrasting achievements made by Liao xunying , Lu guoyao ,Deng xingfeng , Du haitao, this article campares similarities and differences between Qiao Ji and other opera writers of Yuan dynasty like Guanhanqing , Baipu , Mazhiyuan , Zhengguangzu concerning their use of rhymes. Finally , this article inspects the tone of non-enter intonation words and the real derivation of enter-intonation from middle ancienty by contrasting the Qupu like Bei Qu New Pu, contrasting specific song-melody rules made by "Ding Ge" and "Mo Ju" in "Ten Methods of making Ci' in Zhong Yuan Phonology, so as to examine the reliability of Enter-intonation coming Under the third tone , expecially to see if the voiceless consonants should come under the third tone . According to this article , it should not .