The Aesthetic Characteristics Of Huang Zi's Artistic Songs

Huang Zi is one of the most important composers, theorists and educationalists in Chinese modern music history. In his short life, what he composed most are the vocal music works, among which the artistic songs are very popular and have the biggest influences. The aesthetic value of Huang Zi's artistic songs lies in that on one hand it embodies the thoughts that learning the composing techniques of foreign countries to develop the national music; and the more important thing is that it assimilate the elements of Chinese traditional culture and has many Special esthetics characteristics such as its poetic quality and elegant characteristics and so on. This thesis is going to analyze the Huang Zi's artistic songs, try to find the characteristics and aesthetic value and also illustrate the importance of his initiation in the modern music hi story and the deep influence on the composing of Chinese artistic songs.This thesis analyses the aesthetic value of Huang Zi's artistic songs from the following four facets:The first part mainly talks about the composing background of Huang Zi's artistic songs. It tell us the origin and development of artistic songs in Chinese modern period and the life of Huang Zi,and the achievements in music education,music composition,academic activity,the classification of Huang Zi's artistic songs.The second part explains the aesthetic thoughts of Huang Zi's artistic songs composition. Huang Zi accept the influence of the thoughts of two aspect of European classicality and romantic and Chinese traditional culture because of his special experience of life and study, so that it form the artistic characteristics of pursuing taste and elegant lyric with the dominant "expression theory"The third part tells the aesthetic characteristics of Huang Zi's artistic songs composition, which is the main body of this thesis. In the first section it talks about Huang Zi's learning of foreign composing techniques, his development of aesthetic thoughts of national music and the embodiment of national elements in his composition. The second section concludes Huang Zi's poetic quality of his artistic songs and aesthetic characteristic of his composition through the study of Huang Zi's lyric artistic songs and the ancient poem songs.The fourth part illustrates the aesthetic value and the significance of Huang Zi's artistic songs composition. This is the concluding part of this thesis and tells the deep influence of Huang Zi's thoughts on developing the national music, his initiation in the modem music history and the contribution of his artistic composition to the development of the Chinese vocality art.All in all, on the basis of Western artistic songs composition techniques with the Chinese traditional music, Huang Zi's artistic songs develop the national music; not only embody distinct features of its own,but also are valuable in aesthetics.