Nationality Of Zhao Yuanren's Vocals And It's Singing Expression

Zhao Yuanren is an elitist in modern Chinese history. He learns harmonics, counterpoint, composition, vocality and pianism when he studies at Harvard and Cornell University and starts the musical inditement as early as 1913. His vocals adopt the theme of nationality, assimilate the folk music factors, pay attention to the language of national style, absorb the occidental skills, and explore an evolution road of nationalization. Zhao's prominent accomplishments of music make him a precursor in the history of modern Chinese musical inditement. With the angle of view of Zhao Yuanren's vocals, this thesis tries to comprehend and understand his life of music, his vocals, and the style of inditement more deeply. The thesis also discusses the nationality of his vocals systematically and brings forward the author's own opinion about performing Zhao's vocals based on the previous research.This thesis discusses the nationality of Zhao's vocals with four chapters.In Chapter one, the author depicts all Zhao's life and the background of his time. As to his lifetime, the thesis introduces Zhao's familial backdrop, schooling, teaching, his marriage and emphasizes on his music life. As to the background of that time, the thesis represents the cultural backgrounds of the students in the United States and of the New Music. Through these analyses, we can see that Zhao receives the traditional education and is absorbed in it, which shapes his characteristics, influences his career later, and becomes the national radix of his music inditement.In Chapter two, the thesis attempts to classify Zhao's vocals. According to the subject, his vocals are arranged into compose music, incidental music and incidental folk songs. Withal, the compose music is classified again into new type music, enfant education songs, hoi polloi education songs, domesticity songs, school anthem and social realistic songs. From the classification, we find that Zhao focuses on the theme of nationality and devotion to the folk music very much.In Chapter three, the thesis discusses the national style of Zhao's vocals. Zhao incarnates the national style first by using the folk music elements into his vocals including referring to the folk music, Chinese drama and chanting chanson. Secondly, Zhao incarnates the national style by pursuing the application of national language into...