Study On Mr. Liu Xue An And His Songs

Mr. Xuean Liu is one of earlier composers of modern music in China, who has made great contribution to the career of modern music and music education. He played a brilliant role from 1930s to 1940s. Writing songs is important one of his composition. The article is to focus on his songs research, try to demonstrate his peculiarities of art by means of methods of social historic, comparison and national musicology, to reveal the important characteristics of his songs from the aspect of songs performance, so as to give some beneficial supplementary and help on his songs research.The article is divided into four chapters. The first introduces his resume and background in details and his main works which are classified by different topics. The second shows his unique skills and music style on compose by music analyze. The third makes evaluation on him objectively, and acknowledges his achievement in Chinese music career by discussing his famous work "When will you be back". The fourth is the emphases of the whole article, which puts forwards some suggestions and advices on his songs research by how to sing his works.