A Research "The Chinese Way Of Singing"

Up to now, during the development of the art of vocal music in china, one generation of remarkable singers emerged after another. Wu Bixia, a famous lyric coloratura soprano, has drawn wide attention both in china and abroad in the circle of vocal music, for her mastery of Chinese folk songs, western classical songs and foreign operatic arias. It can be said that the appearance of "phenomenon of Wu Bixia" has further stimulated the disputing about "Chinese style" in the area of Chinese vocal music. "Chinese style" is not proposed today, but was once suggested at the early period after the foundation of new china. However, at that time, the art of vocal music was barely acceptable in terms of science and international influence. Thus, we could only name it "national style" . During 1980s and 1990s, artists and theorists of the vocal music not only developed. Arranged and inherited the traditional theory, but also absorbed some advanced technology and teaching theories from western countries, thus making vocal music grow thrivingly. Nowadays, some great men in due course propose the name "Chinese style" , which deservers it in terms of scientific content and language description. Chinese vocal music is presenting a melting tendency to be creative while learning from tradition. It absorbs the merits of "bel canto, folk songs and popular songs" and forms its own feature— "Chinese style" . Whereas, in this new marginal area, we still can' t manage to do a systematic research from theory. Three aren' t many research books on it nor a research from theory. There aren' t many research books on it nor a research system in our country. We need continuously to sum up theory in technology.To further explores the trace of vocal music, to compare the way of singing between china and the West, to inherit our traditional research on vocal music theory and singing methods, to draw lessons from some advanced foreign pronouncing technologies, to furtherpromote the foundation of Chinese vocal music school, to establish a teaching system with Chinese characteristics, to determine the direction of development of our vocal music education, to train more Chinese talented singers with Chinese characteristics loved by the public, to gain more knowledge and perception about "Chinese style" , this paper plans to carry out a research about "Chinese style"This paper includes six parts. The first part is the introduction. It elaborates the research motive and purpose, the research scope and limitation, the research methodology and framework, to facilitate the understanding of the content of this paper and the direction.Chapter 1 defines the conception of "Chinese style" , which is taken as the theoretical basis of the research. Then this paper gradually opens the follow- up exploration.Chapter 2 analyzes the feasibility of the creation of "Chinese style" . It explores the historical evidence and the theoretical evidence for the formation of Chinese style.Chapter 3 explores the subjective and objective conditions of Chinese style formation. These condition become the sound foundation of "Chinese style"Chapter 4 probes into the tendency of "Chinese style" , which can be taken as a reference for the formation of the teaching system of Chinese vocal music and for the training and applying of "Chinese style"The last part is the conclusion. It is the summary of the research presented here, which displays the research discoveries, suggestions and prospects of this paper.