Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
Ci (simplified Chinese: 词; traditional Chinese: 詞; pinyin: cí; Wade–Giles: tz’ŭ and interchangeably –– to a point –– with 辭/辞) are a poetic form a type of lyric poetry done in the tradition of Classical Chinese poetry. Ci use a set of poetic meters derived from a base set of certain patterns in fixed-rhythm fixed-tone and variable line-length formal types or model examples: the rhythmic and tonal pattern of the ci are based upon certain definitive musical song tunes.