On The Era Style Of The Modern And Contemporary Art Of Chinese Vocal Music

The era style of vocal art is the epochal character of vocal music style. It refers to the spirit and social characteristics of a certain era reflecting on the content and formality of the vocal music productivity in this certain era, and which generate some common style features. Chinese modern and contemporary vocal music is influenced by both Chinese traditional folk music and western music culture and possesses the unprecedented era styles. It is significant to understand well about the era style, aesthetic ideal and demands of aesthetic audiences for the development of vocal music in the new era and the music creation of the musicians who are under the guidance of the new aesthetic standards.Based on the previous studies, this study researches on the era style of Chinese modern and contemporary vocal music, by discussing the aesthetic ideals under diverse time circumstances, the basic features of the aesthetic audiences of different stages and analyzing the influential factors causing the transmutation of era styles, so as to illustrate a comprehensive vision of era style of the Chinese modern and contemporary vocal music and provide some referential suggestions for the future development of Chinese vocal music.The main body of the present study consists of introduction, body and conclusion. The introduction introduces the general situation of Chinese music, the background of transmutation of the Chinese modern and contemporary music art and present research situation of the artistic style of vocal music.Five parts compose the body:Part one, the connotation and historical tradition of the music art era styles, which discuss the origin and definition of style, the connotation of music art styles and era styles, and the tradition of era styles of music, is the foundation and the pointcut of the study.Part two, the era transition of the artistic styles of the Chinese modern and contemporary vocal music. As the vein of this study, part two expounds the six main periods of the artistic era style transition of Chinese modern and contemporary vocal music, including the school-song centered age of enlightenment of new music, the "May Fourth" spirit influenced continued developing age of new music, the "movement of singing for the anti-Japan and national salvation" centered new music mature period, the blooming period of new music after 17 years of establishment of PRC (People's Republic of China), the ten-year special age of "cultural revolution" and the prosperity and boom age after the reform and open-up.Part three, the aesthetic ideal of the artistic era style of Chinese modern and contemporary vocal music, is a part with the focal and difficult points under discussion. Based on the era transition of the artistic styles, it analyzes the aesthetic ideal of music composers in different times with different backgrounds, from the summarization of content, formality and characteristics of vocal compositions.Part four, the aesthetic audience of the artistic era style of Chinese modern and contemporary vocal music, which is the highlights of the study, reveals that there are diversities among aesthetic audiences'aesthetic tastes, values, psychologies, judgment and conceptions with different time and social backgrounds. The creation of music must be into practice and seize the aesthetic demands of aesthetic audiences.Part five, the factors of the artistic era style transmutation of Chinese modern and contemporary vocal music. The factors involve the historical tradition—the decisive factor, social change—the leading factors, the factors of aesthetic ideal and aesthetic audiences which facilitate and achieve the era style of vocal music art.