On Artistic Characteristics And Singing Songs Of Mao Zedong's Poetry

Mao Zedong is an outstanding proletarian poet as well as a great proletarian revolutionist. The poems that Mao Zedong wrote in his lifetime revolutionary practice have reflected his struggle and thought, and they also recorded that he and the older generation of revolutionists have led the Chinese people to carry out the great practice of Chinese revolution and construction, which is the great poetic depiction of the course.Mao Zedong's poetry is highly political and ideological and of great artistic charm, which has inspired generations of musicians to write songs based on Mao Zedong's poetry, and the composition rose to the peak in the 1960s and the 1970s. Mao Zedong's poetry songs are the perfect combination of revolutionary realism and revolutionary romanticism, have far-reaching realm of art and unique national style, still arousing people's strong aesthetic feelings and aesthetic experiences.Through this prosperous creating situation and the background, we can see the great artistic charm of Mao Zedong's poetry. As for the creating background, there are special art needs in special times on the one hand; on the other hand, the publication of Mao Zedong's poems provides an important condition. From the perspective of artistic charm, the songs of Mao Zedong's poetry have distinctive artistic features:the unity of rhyme and epic, reflection of the great personality, the perfect integration of the revolutionary realism and revolutionary romanticism; the harmony of tune styles with musical features and ethnic music, and consistency with the revolutionary mass songs. While the phenomenon that the same words have different songs demonstrates that the songs of Mao Zedong's poetry have diverse tune styles.Mao Zedong's poetry is an independent works of art; composing poems of Mao Zedong is the creation for the second time, and poetry art forms are changed into musical art forms. The combination of poetry with music scores will make it a new artistic image. Singing Mao Zedong's poetry song is the re-creation. Respecting the original style and thoughts, singers convert the musical scores into the actual sound by using the unique art of the human voice to give life to music, so that beauty of Mao Zedong's poetry and melody of songs can be conveyed and so that the songs'artistic value can be reflected.The performance of Mao Zedong's poetry songs should be based on the relevant tips of composers as well as the type of its subject matter. Performers are supposed to grasp the overall song style, to understand music content correctly, and to measure the emotions of songs. The performers may be in the shoes of Mao, showing the air of a king and conveying the great person's feelings. They may integrate the feelings with the sceneries, showing the broad mind, as a result, the songs are endowed with permanent vitality.This paper settles down in solo singing songs of Mao Zedong's poetry, aiming at reference for those who love songs of Mao Zedong's poetry as well as for the vocal music majors.