Zhaoyuanren Art Songs Research

Zhao Yuanren (1892-1982), the word is Yizhong. He is not only the most influential linguists, but alsothe language education experts in the20th century in China. He is also an important composer and musictheoretician in modern music history of China. He is our country the first composer to exploration andpractice the national style in creation. He is also one of the earliest composers to learn western musictechnology. He has made great contribution for the Chinese music from20century. He is the pioneer ofChinese modern music. Xiao Youmei ever evaluated Zhao Yuanren as that he opened a new era for themusic world our country. Zhao Yuanren had totally produced one hundred and thirty-two pieces of music,most of which were vocals, few was folksong arrangements and instruments bagatelles. In these works, theart song was with high representativeness and largest social impact, which also could best show hisachievement in music creation. Zhao Yuanren's art song creation mainly concentrated in1920s. All hisworks had distinct spirit of the times and national style. The art song works created by him not onlybrought ideas from western musical device, but also combined with distinct national characteristics. It wasthe classical work of our country's art songs, which offered valuable experiences and had a far-reachingeffect on later art song creation.The paper analysis and research through Zhao Yuanren's life, main achievements, music workssorting and the analysis of the representative works, art song writing characteristics and singing style. Thispaper are divided into four chapters. The first chapter, Zhao Yuanren's life and main achievements. Thischapter introduce him from two simple parts, the Zhao Yuanren family background, the living environmentand the learning experience and the period of linguistics, the masters and the musician's achievements, thusto display his exciting life. The second chapter, Zhao Yuanren's art song creation review and analysis ofthe work. The main body of this chapter is divided into the following. First, the new generation of Chineseart songs are created by Xiao Youmei, Zhao Yuanren which pushed by new culture movement in the periodof "may fourth movement". The ideological trend of Zhao Yuanren in this period had exerted an importantinfluence and profound significance in art song writing. Understanding the writing background of ZhaoYuanren's art songs clearly, had provided the relevant historical theory reference to research Zhao Yuanren art songs.Second, Zhao Yuanren's music creative, here basically lists his other works. Third, the ZhaoYuanren art song creation is divided into early and later period, the period of the art of after songs to joinPuLi works for analysis. The third chapter: the characteristic of creation of Zhao's art songs. In this chapterit cited and analyzed the creative features of Zhao's art songs one by one. The first is to use poetry as lyricsto music. Second it embodies the idea of the creation of the East-West fusion in the art songs. It mainlyembodies in these areas, such as the national character of the lyrics, melody and harmony, tone andexpression to use, etc. The fourth chapter: the research of singing style of Zhao's art songs. This chapterthe author based on the data that he has consulted to discover how to interpret the Chao art songs. Includingthe second creation of the vocal performances, the grasp of the method of singing, the combination of pianoaccompaniment, in accordance with the Zhao's requirements concerts and so on.