On The Emotional Beauty In Contemporary Chinese Ethnic Songs

Music is a kind of art that is good at expressing sentiments. Contemporary Chinese ethnic songs have expressed diverse and colorful sentiments of all Chinese peoples, especially patriotism, nostalgia, kinship, friendship, and sexual love. These five main sentiments find their own artistic characteristics in contemporary Chinese ethnic songs.The five main sentiments in contemporary Chinese ethnic songs are in an inherent relationship, and they tend to combination with each other and transformation between one and another, whose mechanism is both in social culture and in individual mentality.The aesthetical functions of the five main sentiments in contemporary Chinese ethnic songs can be classified into those for communities and for individuals. The aesthetical function for communities displays itself into the activation of patriotism and nostalgia, the implantation of kinship and friendship, and the purification of sexual love. The aesthetical function for individuals embodies itself into the cultivation of noble and pure sentiments, the upbringing of sound and enterprising minds, and the shaping of perfect and ideal personalities.It's necessary for the performance of contemporary Chinese ethnic songs expressing the five main sentiments to abide by such rules as (1) running voices with sentiments to a joint perfection of both two, (2) driving affections in verity and depth, and (3) integrating aesthetically sentiments and reasonings, and sentiments and objects. Of course, different from each other are special skills of the performance of songs expressing different sentiments.