A Primary Research Of Compositional Techniques On He Xuntian's Four Dreams

He Xuntian, one of the most influential Chinese composers in modern time. He had established The RD Method of Musical Composition in 1980's by himself, and have used the original music theory to compose many works that with the individual character. He and his work has affected the Chinese music world.FOUR DREAMS for electric erhu and orchestra, composed in 1986, is one of orchestra works in his early time. In this work, the composer framed the pitch structure by the intervalcyte minor second that through the whole piece; unified the texture, i.e. the "sound wall & sound massive texture", by the precise and well-connected arrangement of different texture; and made the "timbre and sound" be the important structural mainstay by the logic arrangement of themselves. This article aimed at, through the multi-purpose techniques research, to explore the structure of pitch, texture, timbre and the entire work multi-views and comprehensivelyThere are 5 chapters in this article.Chapter 1: The Brief Introduction of the composer and his works since 1980s, and his FOUR DREAMS.Chapter 2: The analysis of the whole pitch structure which built by the intervalcyteChapter 3: Based on the summarization of the texture configuration character of the whole piece, to elaborate the usage of the "sound wall & sound massive" in this work.Chapter 4: With the research in the contrast and development method of the timbre, to explore the function of the "timbre & sound" in the music form.Chapter 5: The comprehensive analysis of the "contrast and asymptotic feature" in the form of the whole piece.The last part: The summarization of the compositional method of the He Xuntian in Four Dreams upon the research result all above.