On The Singing Of Lu Zaiyi’s Art Songs

Lied is a kind of music genre which combines poetry and music to accomplish the task of artistic expression,It first appeared in Europe at the end of 18th century and the beginning of 19th century,Schubert,the famous German composer,is the representative figure in this field.The lyrics of art songs mostly use poems with strong literariness,which combine beautiful melody and vocals,and emphasize the inner emotional world of characters,At the same time,accompaniment occupies a very important position,which is a unique artistic expression of romantic music in the 19th century.Art songs,an important music genre,rose in China in the 1920s.In 1920,Qing Zhu,a famous music theorist in modern China,composed music for Su Dongpo’ s famous poem Niannujiao Chibi Nostalgia,named river of no return;Strictly speaking,this is the first art song in China,marking the creation of modern Chinese art songs entering a new era;Since the 1940s,with the joint efforts of musicians such as Huang Zi,Li Shutong,Xiao Youmei,Liu Xuean and He Lvting,Chinese art songs have reached an unprecedented height and officially entered their heyday,It laid a good foundation for the development of Chinese modern art songs.Since the founding of New China,especially after the reform and opening up,the development of Chinese art songs has flourished unprecedentedly,and a number of outstanding composers such as Gu Jianfen,Shi Guangnan,Zheng Qiufeng,Shang Deyi and Lu Zaiyi have emerged;With superb composing techniques,they have created many familiar and popular music works that reflect the characteristics of the times and return to people’ s lives,which are still widely sung today.Lu Zaiyi is a representative composer in contemporary China,has created a large number of modern vocal art songs,and his masterpiece"Motherland,Kind Mother"has already become a classic in the eyes of the public;The trilogy"Bridge","Home","Hope","I Love this Land" and "Wangxiang Ci" have won the Golden Bell Award,the highest award in the Chinese music industry;"I love this land-Lu Zaiyi’s selection of artistic songs" has become a must-sing track for vocal music students in music colleges;It can be said that Lu Zaiyi’s artistic creation has made an indelible contribution to promoting the development of Chinese vocal music education.This paper is divided into four chapters,The first chapter is an overview of artistic songs with Chinese characteristics and Lu Zaiyi’s writing style,mainly introducing the development history of artistic songs in China and analyzing the style characteristics of Lu Zaiyi’s artistic songs.The second chapter is the background and music analysis of Lu Zaiyi’s three art songs,which can fully understand the works by deeply understanding the composer’ s creative ideas and song noumenon.The third chapter is the singing research of Lu Zaiyi’s three art songs,By analyzing the lyrics and how to use and express the voice in singing,it explores how to grasp the style and interpret the content of the works more accurately.The fourth chapter is to interpret the classic singing models of three art songs,By analyzing the classic singing versions of Liao Changyong,it provides reference and thinking for the author and the majority of vocal singers to sing Lu Zaiyi’ s art songs.