The Literati Spirit In Qu Xiaosong's Music

Qu Xiaosong has been one of the most influential composers since the 1980s. Internally and externally cultivated, possessing wisdom,Buddhism and Taoism, Qu Xiaosong is well known and his artistic achievements have gone beyond that of ordinary musicians. Breaking through the shackles of Western music in music creation, getting out of the narrow and limited space set by 20th century's Western avant-garde music, based on traditional Buddhism and Taoism, combined with poetry, calligraphy, painting, opera and other traditional cultures, absorbing the essence of the world's traditional national culture, showing a unique style in composition concept, compositional techniques and music processing, Qu Xiaosong forms distinct music ideas. His creative ideas based on the music of silence and pursuit of ideology on reality,his simple aesthetic conceptions,his philosophy of doing nothing and everything is done,his freehand drawing in expressing and his functional ideas of attaining enlightenment and cultivating moral character undoubtedly reflect the quintessence of traditional Chinese cultural philosophy, inherit the traditional Chinese literati spirit, display a unique aesthetic features of Chinese traditional art, create a high-grade Chinese music styles and even promote the new growth of Chinese modern musical culture.By analyzing the music morphology of Qu Xiaosong's representative works of music, this paper explores his creative thinking and the literati spirit and focuses on the enlightenment on the contemporary music creation and music education brought by the literati traits,cultural horizo,morphological features and his music view in his music.Qu Xiaosong's music view and the literati spirit in his creation give us inspiration. In addition, the philosophy embodied in his cultivated music brings inspiration and thinking to the development of modern music. The author believes that the development of modern music should try to set itself in a normal non-utilitarian state of mind and get out of the shadow of Western avant-garde musical style, (The author does not oppose Western avant-garde music, which actually gives promotion to the development of modern music. The author only thinks some kinds of Western avant-garde music usually ignore the existence of "root" due to its over-emphasis on certain technique), which is bizarre and "a flash in the pan", then really create works having "roots", which are the excellent traditional culture and traditional thinking. Only having deep "roots", will leaves grow luxuriantly. Only having good "roots", will fruits grow abundantly. Therefore, no matter what direction modern music will go in the future, the existence of "roots" should not be forgotten. This paper analyzes Qu Xiaosong's music, aiming at studying the literati spirit in his music on one hand, and provoking musicians'deeper thinking on the culture in music on the other hand. Just as Qu Xiaosong's music "suggests the eternal silence through voice", the author hopes to inspire people's deeper insights of cultural connotation by Qu Xiaosong's musical "form", in order to gain richer aesthetic connotation and greater aesthetic significance.