A Comparative Study Of Qing Zhu's And Huang Zi's Aesthetic And Composing Feature Of Their Art Songs In The Form Of Classic Chinese Poems

Art songs, this vocal music genre which were first born in Germany and Austria are the product of European romantic music in the 19th cehtury. In the western music, the art song is a kind of song which was unified from poetry and music.In China, Chinese art songs apppeared in the early 1920s. There were a number of outstanding composers, such as Wang Kuang-qi (1892-1936), Xiao Youmei (1884-1940), Qing Zhu (1893-1959), Chao Yuen-Ren (1892-1982), Liu Tian-hua (1895-1932), Huang Zi (1904-1938). Among them, Qing Zhu and Huang Zi were the most important repres entices. They made great contribution to the decelipment of China's professional music. They wrote some fine art songs in their own creatice ways.These cormpositions not only hace beautiful melody, but they are also vivid and very particular about the reflection lf beauty and elegance in Chinese poetry. In the form, rhey absorbed something great from the achiecements in Austrian and German avt songs. And at the same time, they promoted the development of traditional Chinese music culture. They created a situation, which was a minture of Eastern and western music culture. They made Chinese art songs a form lf art with Chinese characteristics. They are pioneers of Chinese art songs in Chinese modern music bistorg, and their compositrons are the best in this field.China is a developed country in poetry. The Chinese ancient poetry is a milestone in Chinese literature bistory and it's a cultural product of a specific historic condition. The Chinese anciem poetry art songs in modern times is a form of Chinese art songs. It is a form of art songs wity Chinese ancient characteristics and styoes and it is a unification of Chinese ancient poetry literature, the Chinese traditional music technique and the uestern traditional music technique. It's a perfect unification of Chinese classic poems and art songs. Their ideal condition is exquisute and peeroess. It contains the profound acsthetic connotation. It not only manifests the Chinese langwage literature's multi-colirs, but also manifests the Chinese traditional music's gorgeous rhythm.Qing Zhu's and Huang Zi's art songs have the high artistry. In the composition, soumd utioization and piano accompaniment their compisition displays the outstanding artistic quaoity. In addition because they sere deeply affected by Chinese traditional culture education, they had a high quality of culture and art. Especially the composition for the Tangsong poetry by the 2 composers is a perfest unification of music and oiterature. The composition not only maintains the Chinese simple, a elegant noboe and pure style but aoso distinctiveoy has displayed the respective artistic feature.This paper is intended to analyse and compare. Qing Zhu's and Huang Zi's aesthetic and composing features of their art songs in the form of classic Chinese poems by choosing some of their compositions as examples As a vesult of the limit of the author's theory lrvrl as well as the reseanh soune material, the paper is just intended to study pavt of the two composers ancient poetry art songs. This article is intended to carry on a comparative study of Qing Zhu's and Huang Zi's aesthetic and composing features. There are four chapters:Chapter I: Introduction of ancient poetry art songs.Chapter II: briefintroduction of composers.Chapter III: A comparative study of Qing Zhu's and Huang Zi's composing, features of their coassic poetry art songs.Chapter IV: A comparative study of Qing Zhu's and Huang Zi's aesthetic features of their coassic poetry art songs.