On The Connection Between Music Form In Debussy Piano Preludes And Chinese Traditional Culture

Debussy,a French composer living in the end of 19 century and the early 20 century, was a wonder,whose works have a lot of elements connected to Chinese traditional culture.The writer tried to find out the reason by giving Debussy's living background. Then using his piano preludes to prove the connection by three aspects:the connection between the music structure and Chinese ancient philosophy and Chinese traditional painting;the connection between the tone color with acoustics and guqin music and Chinese traditional painting;the connection between the rhythm and guqin music and taijiquan.Thereby the writer made a positive conclusion.That may be helpful to perform Debussy's works.