Sound Concepts In The Orchestration Of The China Nationalities Orchestra In The Twentieth Century

The art of the Chinese Orchestra have experienced an evolution from popular to professional, from traditional to modern, and from newly emerging to well-developed in the 20th century. The thesis tries to probe the composer's "sense of tone color" from the aspects of cultural tradition of philosophy and aesthetics and of cultural background. Many music scores and sound of the Chinese Orchestra works and achievements in former study, especially the orchestration skill and style within them, are collected to be analyzed carefully and comprehensively. It aims at expounding "the sense of tone color" in the orchestration of the Chinese Orchestra by analyzing the distribution and disposal of the tone color in it.Chinese traditional music has a long history during which the sense of tone color of paying great attention to tone color and pursuing diversified and special tone color has formed. The first chapter expounds the concept and the characters of the tone color starting with the principle of acoustics of it, analyzes the sense of tone color in traditional instrumental ensemble, and points out that the sense of tone color emerged by the influence of the philosophic thought of "heaven and man combine to one".From the beginning of the 20th century, western music had come into China overwhelmingly. The idea of composition and the sense of tone color of western music have influenced the emerging and developing of the Chinese Orchestra art. From New Culture Movement to open policy implemented in the year of 1978, large-scale Orchestra has developed under the influence of the sense of tone color of "fusion and unity" in European classical music and romantic music. The second chapter of the thesis analyzes the sense of tone color in the Chinese Orchestra of this period from the aspects of the instrument reform, orchestra organizational system, the orchestration skill, and the disposal of performing method.Since the open policy implemented, with practice of various policies and liberation of ideology, many composers, especially young composers has changed their idea of composition under the influence of the thought of "being against the global unity of music culture " in order to compose works conformed to national characteristic. The sense of tone color in the orchestration of Chinese Orchestra displays the regression to tradition. From the aspects of the expanding of the tone color source, the variety of the orchestra quotas, the variety and speciality of the combination of vertical part, and the change and comparison of the tone color of the horizontal structure, the third chapter of the thesis expounds the regression of the traditional sense of tone color which displaying the emphasis of tone color and the pursuit of diversified and special tone color.The concluding remarks are the generalization and summation of the thesis. It displays that during the evolution of the orchestration art of the Chinese Orchestra in the 20th century, two different senses of tone color which interacting and influencing each other push forward the evolution of the Chinese Orchestra art and the traditional sense of tone color has regressed. With the evolution of global unity, the regression of traditional sense of tone color is very important to the evolution of the Chinese Orchestra art and the pluralism of the world music in the 21 st century.