The Historic Influence Of GAO Lanying' Singing Arts In The Developments Of Chinese National Music

Guo Lanying is a famous singer of Chinese traditional vocal music in the 20 century. Based on the traditional theatrical experiences, Guo Lanying' way of singing which had successfully inherited the strong-points of traditional theatrical performance: "articulation pronunciation"and "Smooth Opera" etc, had showed its striking feature in artistic performance and brought her a remarkable artistic achievements as well. To analize and summarize Guo Lanying' successful experiences is not only enable us to enhance our understanding of traditional vocal music but also could be used to lead our practical singing.As time goes by, the modern national vocal music is represented by a group of modern nation-singers: Peng Liyuan, Song Zuying and Yan Weiwen. These people' ways of singing are based on the traditional vocal music and learned themselves from the the development of western singing. Their methods are recognized both by the domestic and foreign audiences, which make the Chinese national vocal music play a significant role in the world national vocal music. The development of the modern national vocal music is a great milestone of our national vocal music and represents a more strong powerful development of itself.However, there is a argument for the former famous singers' ways of singing national vocal music. Some of the young singers hold their opinions that the former singers' artistic ways of singing have a very high valuable stands in the 1950s-1960s. However, form the modern time perspective, the former singers' artistic ways of singing which is out of date seems to be wearing a "old" clothes and unable to catch the bus of modern fashion any more. Some others take a different point that although the modern national vocal music seems to be more beautiful in the artistic performance and more soft and sweet in the sound, it has the appearant deficiencies both in the lack of its own "characteristic" and in short of the "uniqueness" of former singers.No matter the Guo Lanying' ways of singing as the representor of the traditional vocal music or the Peng Liyuan's ways of singing as the representor of the modern vocal music, they are all the constant development, exploring and creation of our Chinese national vocal music. Under a comparison of the two ways of singing, it is not difficult for us to discover that Guo Lanying's ways of national vocal music are better able to express a natural ethnic flavor with its strong unique personality, and the modern national vocal music are much better enable to make a more bright, soft and sweet sound and a easier promotion for people with a favorable acceptance by the society.However, what we should recognize is that the Chinese national vocal music is still a young subject and need a constant exploring and perfection both in the theory and practice. We will continually take a full use advantage of the fruits of modern and traditional national vocal music. When we do this we could make our Chinese national vocal music develop healthily and perfectly.