A study of the limitations of musical experience in Ancient Chinese Poetry – The case of the creation concert of Wei’s Music Score
Zushun Zhang, Panjie Xie, Jinsong Wang · 2026
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Setting ancient Chinese poems to music revives them, but audiences often feel locked out by unfamiliar settings and history. Zushun Zhang, Panjie Xie, and Jinsong Wang studied concerts built around a historic Wei dynasty music score to measure those barriers, in this 2026 PLOS One paper.
Borrowing a leisure constraints framework, they built a scale of limiting factors and surveyed audiences at three creative concerts. Barriers fell into three families: personal limits like knowledge and confidence, social limits like companions and guidance, and structural limits like venues and scheduling. The families act in sequence, the analysis showed, so removing later barriers fails while early ones stand.
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| CREATOR | Zushun Zhang, Panjie Xie, Jinsong Wang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42657 |
| LICENSE | CC_BY |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS |