The Representation Of National Characteristic In The Singing Of Chinese Art Songs Setting With Ancient Poetry

Art Song, a kind of vocal music genre, came into China in the 1920s. Then a new vocal genre named ancient Chinese poems Lied arose.The singing style of art song is Bel Canto. Singers of European countries will blend their folk music element to Bel Canto when singing art song to form their distinctive performance style. The course develops similar in China.The paper focuses on ancient Chinese poems art song to explore the embodying of ethic flavor in singing.The first part of the research is the overviews about the situations of art song in main western countries, the development and genres of Chinese art song's creation and ancient Chinese poems art song. The second part discusses the embodying of ethnic flavor in ancient Chinese poems art song's singing under analysis of pronunciation and singing patterns of Chinese songs, references of traditional Chinese operas, chant, and some other genres, and experiences of predecessor singers.The conclusion is that only if one studies traditional operas, Quyi, ballads, and so on, and masters their skills, he will digest folk music and Bel Canto, and then become unique style of ancient Chinese poems art song...