Analysis On The Creative Style And Performance Teaching Of Tan Dun’s Piano Suite "The Memory Of Eight Water-Color Painting"

Tan Dun is a famous Chinese composer and commander.His creative field is very extensive,the number of works is very rich,the style of music is changeable,and the connotation of culture is varied.Tan Dun’s works have obvious oriental cultural color and the spirit of the times.In many of his works,the representative works are : Symphony “Dissociation”、 “Heaven·Earth·Mankind”(Symphony 1997);Concerto “Crouching Tiger”、Chamber music“ Feng ·Ya ·Song ”;the original movie music of "Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon" 、 "The Night Banquet" and "Hero";the Piano Suite“The memory of eight water-color painting”and so on.Tan Dun is one of the Chinese composers active in the international music area.Tan Dun was born in Hunan.Hunan Province is a multi-ethnic region,Han nationality is the majority,and the people of the ethnic groups,such as the Tujia,the Miao,the Dong,the Yao,the Zhuang,the White,the Hui and the Uighur people in the western Hunan and the south of Hunan.In the early days of his creation,"The memory of eight water-color painting" as a representative piano work by Tan Dun,he combined the Chinese traditional music culture with the western modern music culture,he got the inspiration of music from Hunan and Chu folk music in China.Writing with five-tone national harmony and western composing techniques into his creation.The work was influenced by minority folk songs,it has a strong local color in the west of Hunan.In terms of tone,he used more Yudiao to create.The delicate music,the euphemism reveals a kind of sensual beauty.With a strong sense of poetry,it shows a strong Chinese nation’s characteristics in the performance.He also used western composing techniques such as polyphonic,tonal migration and so on,and laid a solid theoretical foundation for the work,and enriched the creative style of the Chinese piano works.In order to achieve a better performance of this piano work.This article will analyze Tan Dun’s "The memory of eight water-color painting" from the aspect of its creative style and the piano performance teaching.