On The Creative Characteristics Of Jiang Wenye's Piano Divertimento 'Xiangtu Jieling Shi' (Poems Of Rural Seasonal Phenomena)

Jiang Wenye is one of the most distinctive musician in the contemporary music history. This kind of distinctiveness owes much to his life experiences. Jiang Wenye stayed in Xiamen for all his childhood and adolescent years. After that he set his foot to Japan and became famous there. He then returned to his beloved motherland and lived there until his death. It was his life experiences that added to his works various elements of Taiwan, Japan and the Mainland of China and made them rich in style. Jiang Wenye is among the musicians who were the earliest to compose Chinese style music applying the modern western methods of composing. Dating back to the 1930's he got a high reputation in the international music field. His works have a wide coverage, involving strings, piano, vocals and chamber music, etc. Among them, his piano composition is the most important part in his musical works. So far, 30 pieces of his works are known to us, which takes up one quarter of his total works.The piano divertimento "Xiangtu Jieling Shi (poems of rural seasonal phenomena)" was one of the most important representatives of his later musical creations. This thesis has come up with ths stylistic features embodied by combining the Chinese national styles with Western composing techniques. At the same time, by comparing with Jiang Wenye's former homogeneous works "Five pieces of sketch" , this thesis has drawn the conclusion that Chinese style was rooted more deeply in his later works as well as that the "Xiangtu Jieling Shi(poems of rural seasonal phenomena)" has historically and realistically played an important role in his entire musical creation.