Disquisition Of Tan Dun's OrganicMusic Series

Tan Dun, one of Chinese present age music representative composers, is also in the present international musical world most active Chinese composer representative. In recent years, the domestic and foreign music media take widespread attention on him, and his works had been made different opinions. Tan Dun popularized and disseminated the Chinese tradition folk music in the home and the overseas, he had made enormously diligently with the practice. He had not only inherited the creation technique in the 20th century West modern music, but also invented many Chinese native characteristic music. As the student who taken college entrance examination's after the Great Cultural Revolution, a long time enthusiasm for ten years constrains for to erupt fully in a twinkling. They made widely known the individuality, the assurance self-study and the life, and they had abandoned the old values completely, they followed the Westen modem life and the modern music positively. They became the first group of practitioners of the Western cutting edge music. Tan Dun's organic music series break the former music creation pattern, he mixed the technique of the wasten morden music and the ancient culture of Chinese nation and he took the subversive revolution of the traditional concepts. Such as the tonality , the music structures, the noise and the musical tone, the dissonant of harmony, the function of the performers, the non-conventional porformance technique. His music could make dialogs between the ancient times and the morden times, the human beling and the nature. He also could mix the sound of the wind, the water, the knocking of the stones, which belonged to the nature in his organic music works. Tan Dun had inheritanced the music ideas which belonged to John Cage (1912—1992) , "the life is music, and the music is life" . Simultaneously, The Book of Changes and the zen thought had made deep infulence on Tan Dun's thought, he created the special music form, which named the Organic Music Series. This nusic could initiate the nature, the deep thought of gradually worsening of environment. Tan Dun's music is a blend of tha Easten and Westen music, also a Chinese person to have the magnificent coat who used the Western modern composition technology Chinese aboriginality music puted on. His music had broken the world, the nation, the region, the race boundary, made the Chinese native place music around the world to arouse the enormous interest. Although the domestic and foreign music worlds had different opinions to his works and his creation ideas, but in the Chinese music world, it did not have a person to look like Tan Dun who shield nearly to be the same, by the talent, the individuality and new goods come into the market unceasingly the work, 20 years continuously grip the world's eyeball, and made the world like to talk about the Chinese traditional music culture. His organic music series works had broken the traditional sense of hearing, the visual sense organ, utilizes the brand-new creation idea and the non-conventional musical instrument performance way, it had rised a comprehensive music artistic form, had caused the enormous reaction in the domestic and foreign music worlds.This article is composed by the introduction, five chapters and the conclusion. The author attempts from the organic music's origin, inheritance, form of innovation, essence of tradition as well as the organic music forecast, combs the development vein of organic music , simultaneously the analysis of organic music works to tried hard to analyze thoroughly. Finally, summarizes the Tan Dun's organic music influence and the appraisal to the home, the overseas music world, and forecasted the development direction of Tan Dun's music .