学堂乐歌与中国新诗的发生

School Songs and the Occurrence of Chinese New Poetry

清末民初时期,学堂乐歌作为一种歌诗体的音乐文学样式,在当时各种新式学堂中相当普及和流行。学堂乐歌的广泛传唱,极大地加速了中国近代新型音乐教育的现代化进程。学堂乐歌的大量传播直接参与了早期白话新诗语言的形式变革,为早期白话新诗的大众化奠定了一系列坚实基础。二者构成了一种实质意义上的同构关系,学堂乐歌在新诗发生期当属其中的一个重要环节。

In the period of late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, school songs--a model of music lit- erature in the form of songs of a verse style--were quite common and popular in various new-style schools at that time. They were widely sung, which greatly accelerated the modernization process of modern Chinese new music education; while the extensive spread of school songs played a direct part in the form of language changes in early new vernacular poems, thereby having laid a solid foundation for the popularity of early new poems. As school songs and new poems constituted an isomorphic relationship in a real sense, the former was surely a very important part of the occurrence of the latter.