Polyphony Techniques Analysis Of He Luting's Vocal Works

Mr. He Luting enjoys high prestige in musical circles of China. He is also a famous composer, theoretician, educationist and activist with widespread and international influence. He is an active participant and eyewitness of Chinese modern musical and cultural career in 20th century. And he had made outstanding contribution in the course of history.Mr. He had created more than 260 musical works, since he walked into musical circles. The works involve different types and contents, as chorus, movie music, drama, solo, and orchestral music. Among all the works, 75 per cent and more than 200 of them are vocal music. His works have distinct flavor of life, characteristic of the times, style of nations and personality of arts. His works are celebrated for well-knit plot, compact composition, simple languages, succinct techniques, and vivid images.In order to have common people accept the musical works, he combines European composition techniques of modern times with Chinese musical traditions. And strive to adapt to Chinese psychology and custom of aesthetic conceptions, which have been made over a long time and with stability. In the meantime, he was good at technical treatments of modern and professional creation according to the content demands of his works. So his musical works have distinct personality.This thesis starts with melodies and tones, skills of harmony and polyphony, researches and analyses Mr. He's works. The thesis also probes into and studies his skills and techniques of creation, and how he combines European composition techniques of modem times with Chinese musical traditions. The author hopes that people will gain a good deal of enlightenment from his artistic achievements. And provide valuable experiences to people for creating more and better musical works with modern, national characteristics, and have been accepted by common people as well.