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Yushan Yue
PhD researcher · Tang poetry and music generation | Author of RhetoScore (Shichengqu)
Why RhetoScore
My doctoral research asks a single question: can the sound-structure of Tang poetry be formally transcribed into music? The Five-Level system and Rhetorical Figure Mapping are this research’s answer. RhetoScore turns that answer into a tool anyone can use: enter a poem, and what you hear is not incidental “background music” but the poem’s own sound-structure, translated into music. Every generation is a public test of the methodology.
Research timeline
Research inception
Tonal prosody of Tang poetry and music generation
A study of computable mappings between the tonal prosody of Tang poetry and music generation.
The method takes shape
The Five-Level system and Dictionary v1
Tonal and rhetorical annotation of several hundred Tang poems; the mapping dictionary takes shape.
Engine implementation
The RhetoScore engine
A rule-based engine implements the tone-contour mapping, form templates and multi-voice generation; the automatic-check framework is established.
Workshops and launch
Public presentation and release
Methodology workshops; public launch of the Shichengqu website.
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