On Liu Xizhen 's Creation Of National Orchestral Music

Chinese ethnic orchestral music is the combination of Chinese ethnic music and thewestern symphony, both an essential representative of Chinese instrumental music and ansymphonic artistic expression with Chinese aesthetic taste. Created in1980s, Chineseorchestral music, which has witnessed the half-centry-long development of new nationalorchestras, represents the prosperity and vitality of Chinese national instrumental music.Thenational orchestral music works created by Liu Xijin, one of the contemporary Chineseorchestral music composer, reflect the features of Chinese orchestral music development sinceChina’s open-up, as well as the trend of other music composers in his time. Meanwhile,during the long-term practice on music creation, Liu Xijin forms the unique music featuresand artistic value in his national orchestral music creation.This thesis will make profound analysis and research on Liu Xijin’s selection on themes,construction of musical images and referencing from tones of ethnic elements through thestudy on a few representative masterpieces of Liu. The thesis includes3chapters. The1stchapter tries to define ethnic orchestral music and introduces Liu’s experience on musiccreation, through which to come to the conclusion that Liu attaches great importance on thethemes with ethnic features and epochal characters. Chapter Two provides profound analysison how the vivid music images show themselves through the research on Liu’s twomasterpieces, Sketch on Northern Ethnic Life--a Yu-kin concerto, and Shumo suite-an ethnicinstrument ensemble.Chapter Three probes into the usage of characteristic tones in Liu’sethnic orchestral music creation. This thesis tries to elaborates on the development features ofChinese ethnic orchestral music after China’s open-up and confirm the value and position ofLiu’s orchestral music works.