The Preliminary Study Of The Creation Of Chinese Piano Music In The Second Half Of The 20th Century

The Chinese piano music composition in the second half of the 20th century has passed by a winding development path. After new China had been established, the music composers of China accumulated more and more creative experiences in creation. And at the first 17 years after the founding of China, Chinese piano music creation show a high speed development tendency. According to incomplete statistics, various kind of piano works surpassed 360 pieces. In 1966,the ten-years-long "Cultural Revolution" began, it leads the creation of Chinese piano music into stagnation period. But the Chinese music composers have never stopped their love and pursue to the piano music. They are never stop looking for the opportunity of music creation. After two years of Stagnation, the appearance of the piano accompany work "The Red Lantern" let the Chinese piano music reobtain the opportunity of creation. From this time, the creation of Chinese piano music entered the peoriod of "piano reorganization music" of "Cultural Revolution". This stage appeared a large number of high-quality and world-influence piano reorganization music works, such as piano concerto"Yellow River", solo piano work"A Hundred Birds Paying Respect To The Phoenix" and "Music At The Sunset Time" . After the end of the "Cultural Revolution",the Chinese piano music composition toward the directions of the multiplex music style and the diverse literature style form . At this time, the music composers of China started to explore the brand-new sense "Chinese music style". Besides of the continuation of the "nationality" style and the "populace" style, some modern compose techniques,such as "dodecaphonic", "atonality" and "sound block" have been used into the Chinese composers' piano works. These beneficial attempts and the creation practices lay the foundation of Chinese piano music composition for the 21th centuary.This paper makes a preliminary study of the "time survey", "literature style", "music style" of the Chinese piano music creation in the second half of the 20th century by employing the research methods of questionnaire, documentation etc. The aims of this paper is to unfold the development course of the Chinese piano music composition in the...