The Research For The Essence Of Chinese Vocal Music

Vocal music is not only a kind of artistic forms, but a discipline. As a new subject, the National Vocal Music adds a new dimension to the Vocal Music. What it emphasizes is the national property, which gives priority to language, style, regional features and local characteristics. The national property determines the essence of the nature and development of Chinese national vocal music. The research of the essence of national vocal music is of primary importance to the theoretical study of national vocal music, for essence is the core of entity and lays the theoretical foundation of research. The essence of Chinese vocal music can be divided into the following three aspects:First, the social nature of Chinese vocal music. Just like arts, National vocal music is the reflection of social life. It is a special ideology. There are both similarities and differences between art and other forms of ideology. As a stable entity, every nation has its distinctive features of region, language, culture and customs. National vocal music is the combination of national characteristics and musical property. Chinese vocal music is a kind of distinctive social ideology different from any other national vocal music in the world. National music has the nature of social truthfulness. Second, the emotional essence of Chinese national vocal music. The fine, rich and complicated emotions expressed by national vocal music are embodied in the national images. National vocal music is concrete special experience of feelings existing in the atmosphere of national music. The shift from specialized emotional experience to music conception symbolizes the production of a piece of music. National music feelings have the property of typicalness, freedom and easy conception. Third, the image property of Chinese national vocal music. To reflect the social life art often resort to the means of image. Images of national vocal music have the nature of easy conception, typicalness and vividness. To sum up, it is a hard job to study the essence of things. It is of practical importance to study the essence of national vocal music for the study, teaching and establishment of the theory of Chinese national vocal music.