The 20th Century, 20-40 Years Of Ancient Chinese Poetry Song Singing Style Microprobe

1920s-1940s is an important periods for Chinese art song to form and develop, Chinese Classical Poems Art Song (CCPAS) is an novel form which is created by Chinese composers via combination of western art song form and Chinese classical poetry. Qing Zhu's《Yangtze River go to East》as a model, CCPAS established its independent characters and art position gradually in the past several decades. Such as Huang Zi's《Flowers no Flowers》, Zhou Shuaan's《Spinning Song》and Qing Zhu's《I Live at the Source of Yangtze River》etc, they are all selected into textbook of Music University, which hold high academic and art value, and play an important part in creating, concert and teaching of songs. CCPAS is the most representative music genres with national characters in Chinese art song. This paper researches the art characters and styles for singing based on summary of stages for CCPAS to form and develop. The paper makes up of four chapters, introduction as following:ChapterⅠ:definition of CCPAS. This chapter analyses differences and relationship of CCPAS comparing with western art song based on many factors including overview of art song and historical origins of CCPAS appearing, and then clears definition of the ancient poems songs.ChapterⅡ:development status of classical poems art song during 1920s-1940s. In this chapter, the development stages of classical poems art song are classified as three historical periods according to decades. The paper states the exponents, model work and writing style for each stage separately, and then analyses and concludes development status in global.ChapterⅢ:the arts features singer should grasp for classical poems art song of 1920s-1940s. This chapter analyses the problem from genre, theme features, music features and combination of poetry and music, etc. and then introduces the arts features which should be grasped by singer for singing the classical poems art song of 1920s-1940s.ChapterⅣ:application of classical poems art song of 1920s-1940s in singing. This chapter classifies the representative classical poems art song as two generally, analyses in detail the singing style which should be grasped for singing the short and simple classical poems art song, introduces the diversity innovation and exploration of singing style, performing techniques and approach for singing the classical poems art song with high artistic quality, and then apply them in practice concert.