Zhang Qianyi" Sentiment" Vocal Cycle Of Moral

This paper specifically elaborates and understands the work and contents of Apprehending Tao Te Ching vocal music divertimento based on Tao Te Ching by Lao Tse. Lao Tse is the founder of Chinese traditional philosophy. Tao Te Ching exerts far-reaching influences on human universe, society, life and politics. It covers countless levels of things and is a philosophical work full of wisdom and beauty.Songwriter Zhang Qianyi, filled with deep respect for Lao Tse and Tao Te Ching, composed Apprehending Tao Te Ching vocal music divertimento for nearly a year with pious and gentle will. The divertimento includes ten tracks, each of which explains one of Lao Tse’s ideas. This paper includes five chapters, the first of which elaborating the background of topic selection, current research situation, purpose, meaning and research methods of topic selection to understand the composition style system of Zhang Qianyi. Then it explains the production background of the vocal music divertimento including literature and music background. The third analyzes the musical form of the divertimento and the creation background, motive and idea of each track. It also analyzes what writings the tracks come from according to Tao Te Ching by Lao Tse and what contents the composer’play reflects.Through elaborating and analyzing the set of vocal music divertimento, the musical expressive force and the literary form of expression of the divertimento are presented. Apprehending Tao Te Ching vocal music divertimento blends in much intelligent thinking of the author, as well as perceptual and rational thinking. The divertimento explains how close "morality" is away from us from the dynamic and quiet, big and small, long and short music. This paper mainly discusses the folk music culture (including philosophical thinking, aesthetic ideology, literary ideas and other culture contents reflected in Tao Te Ching) reflected by the divertimento and also discusses the application’characteristics of folk spiritual scale and its writing techniques in the respect of composing technology, such as the characteristics of multipart composing and harmony application. Except summarizing the achievements of predecessors’research, this paper also makes new breakthroughs in the respects of the application of composing techniques and harmony instruments and literary reflections.Apprehending Tao Te Ching vocal music divertimento not only formulates the ideas of Lao Tse comprehensively and also unfolds the great folk music culture and even reflects the connection between the intangible "morality" and "tangible" art.