The Music Characteristics Of Symphony Cantata-The Heroic Poems-after Mao Tse_tung's Six Poems

As representative one of musical works of Mao Zedong's poems, Zhu Jian'er's symphonic chorus Heroic Poetry was born under a specifically history context. According to the needs of subject, composer is very innovative during the creation of musical works of Mao Zedong's poems. By combining the two genres symphony and cantata, and more by combining the characteristics of revolutionary romanticism and revolutionary realism of Mao Zedong's poems, composer created a hero image who has proletarian revolutionary heroism -- that is the hero image of the Chinese Workers'and Peasants'Red Army in the Long March.Heroic Poetry that was created by integrating Chinese folk music into cantata is the composer's innovation based on the achievements in the past, and furthermore it has the characteristics of Heroism, optimism, Romantic. For the sake of the heroic and symphonic property of the music, the application of the topic unity and symphonic techniques is the key composition of the whole music. The article comes up to the conclusion that unified musical style and transforming performance are the best expression of the multiple properties of the heroic topic. Topic unity forms the structural property of the symphony. Moreover, the combination of singing and instrument playing gains symphonic expressive effect.As the first musical works of Mao Zedong's poems after the founding of the PRC, Heroic Poetry is kind of created Symphony cantata. The creation of Heroic Poetry reflects the unity of ideology and art and certainly plays an usefull experiment and an active exploration in the chorus development.