Research On Mr.Shang Deyi's Song-writing Career With His Aesthetic Thoughts

Mr. Shang Deyi, the well-known song writer and educator of modern age, has written many songs of which some are written to the accompaniment of the musical instruments through his laborious research and much practice in the past 40-odd years. His songs, taking in the western song-writing skills, conspicuously epitomizing the aesthetic and national characteristics and bursting with the closely linked western-eastern, primitive-contemporary and elegant-popular traits, widen the variety of the song-writing material, embody the "HuaQiang" songs with Chinese characteristics and enrich the song-writing style. Mr. Shang, whose songs, filled with national and local characteristics, artistically popular and suitable for chorus both at home and abroad, has contributed noticeably to the song writing cause.The dissertation, based on Mr. Shang Deyi's life story and his song-writing career, the analytical research on Mr. Shang' songs and his aesthetical thoughts of song writing, summarizes Mr. Shang's song-writing career and his brilliant achievements. Through the systematic analysis of Mr. Shang's works, it also conducts the research on his supreme and unique song-writing skills and the aesthetic thoughts of song writing with their theoretically historic influence on the future song-writing.