The Innovative Features And Style Development Of The Piano Music Adapted From Folk Song Which Created In The Middle And Later Period Of 20th Century In China

According to statistics,about 80 percent of piano in China are transcribed from folk song,ancient music,beat upon,gongs and drums,string and bamboo flute music,folk music ensemble and music in Chinese opera.These piano transcriptions make a significant contributions to the piano Culture in the word.As the most primitive music among the five types of Chinese traditional music,folk song is not only the important a carrier of Chinese folk music but also play a very positive and important role during the development of Chinese traditional music.Chinese musician produced a lots of piano works which were based on the traditional folk song from the middle period of last century.Most of these piano music which are transcribed from folk song are embody the lively musical styles of traditional music,and make a successful research for the piano music nationalization from the tonality, chorus,musical form and others compose technique.Meanwhile these Composers kept researching and seeking the method to integrate the west composers'technique with Chinese nationalistic styles and endemicity.This article will be started from the piano music adapted from folk song,which created in the middle and later period of 20^th century,sorting out the creation character of this kind of works in different periods of history and seeking the evolution of their styles,with the purpose to make an overall generalization of the piano music adapted from folk song, which created in the middle and later period of 20^th century in China. There are six parts in total in this article:the overview in the exordium about the development of piano music in China and the importance of the piano music adapted from folk song in Chinese piano culture;the discourse basing on the development of melody,the handling of the structure,the tonality layout and polyphony skill from chapter one to chapter three about the creation character of the music adapted from folk song in three different periods,that is the middle period of 20^th century, the period of Culture Revolution and the later period of 20^th century;the discourse in the forth chapter about the style evolution in these three periods;and the summary of the whole article in the last chapter.