In music performance, practice-led research methods focus on exploring and generating new knowledge and understanding through music performance activities. Music narrative is a new way and approach among the diversified analytical methods since the second half of the 20th century. Under the practice-led research paradigm, through the textual interpretation and performance practice of the narrative works of traditional Chinese pipa, the audience can gain an in-depth understanding of the cultural connotations of the works through the representational narrative discourse, thus strengthening the audience’s understanding of the connotations of pipa’s Ping Hu school, and rebuilding their knowledge of the music of the Ping Hu School. This article takes one representative works of the Ping Hu School, Huai Yin Ping Chu (????) as examples. Taking music narrative as the starting point, from the perspective of analysis and practice, it deeply analyzes the structure, emotion and intention of the works, and uses a series of technical performance treatments to convey the story and literary connotation of the work. The purpose is to shorten the distance between the performers and the audience on the stage, so that the audience can deeply participate in the interpretation of the work based on synesthesia. This research attempt from a new perspective provides exploratory research for the audience to deeply understand the storytelling and humanistic nature of the work from a practical perspective. Ultimately it helps to deepen a new performance research methods and bring the distance between listeners and performers closer.
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