The Comparative Research On Shandong Zheng And Henan Zheng Genres

As the Chinese traditional pizzicato musical instrument, Guzheng has a long history of over two thousand years. In the course of the development and spread of ages, combined with the local language, customs, and continued to absorb the essence of the local folk music, Guzheng gradually formed a different phonological characteristics, performance skills and rich in regionally feature. With the rapidly development of Guzheng it has been formed a "Vast nine genres spread over China" situation. Shandong Zheng and Henan Zheng become the most famous representative genres as "Northern Zheng Genres". Zheng send the same in both the Yellow River Basin, due to geography, language, living habits are similar, there are some similarities between the music culture, but both in art style is unique, reflecting the distinctive local color. The ties and differences between these two genres are worth exploring. This article attempts to do a more comprehensive comparative study about Shandong Zheng and Henan Zheng genres. Article is divided into four parts:Introduction section:Mainly include the research reason, as well as domestic and international research on the topic of the status quo.Part I:from a historical perspective to explore Shandong zheng, Henan Zheng formation history (with the local rap, opera and other forms of folk music history and relationship), music composition and major inheritance relations.Partâ…¡:On the basis of musical noumenon, make a comparative analysis for the art character and style between Shandong Zheng, Henan Zheng to have a glimpse into the links and commonness about them. More study is focused on the essential elements which cause difference in art style. (Mainly mentioned are two instruments structure, notation, melody, tone characteristics, playing rules, finger using style, etc.)Partâ…¢:From the humanities and historical perspective analyses the interdependent objective environment around Shandong zheng and Henan Zheng genres from geography, folklore, linguistics local geography, social culture, local languages, representative player and; other factors which produced important role and influence on the formation of Zheng art style.Partâ…£:The author summed up the experience from many years Guzheng teaching and make a deep analysis on the Shandong and Henan Zheng representative music. In order to explore the difference between two genres in music representing method, the article makes a comparative research on the performing character by analyzing the technique and style.