An Analysis Of Zhou Long 's Four Poems Of Tang Dynasty

Zhou Long is one of the leading contemporary composers, as a Chinese-American composer, his works pursuit the Chinese traditional music and culture with skilled the performance techniques. His unique style made him an international renowned Chinese composer and influenced a new generation of music creators. On the subject of Zhou Long’s string quartets and orchestral work "Poems From Tang ", this paper study the music material, sound and audio forms, as well as organizational and structural arrangements and many other techniques to understand Zhou Long’s musical language, and thus to think of Chinese traditional culture in his work.This paper is divided into three parts:The first part is an introduction for the composer, "Poetry four," the background of the music and five Tang poems respectively.The second part is an analyzing on four chapters as a whole, focused on the elements of guqin and others that reflected the poetry language, explored the material source and the music manifestation and analysis the reflect of the overall sound by musical elements of guqin, poetry factors and sound shape.The third part is the summary of Zhou Long’s creative techniques and musical styles, and the exploration to literature image the work carried out...