Research On Jiang Dingxian 's Piano Works

Jiang Dingxian (1912-2000), from Hankou of Hubei province, one of theleading figures in history of piano music creation during the20thcenturyin in China, is China’s first batch of professional music educationone of cultivation by tradition. He developed the path for thenationalization exploration and development of Chinese piano music. Hiscreation directly affects the young Chinese composer’s creative direction.He is the Chinese piano music man of the whole20th century history.Early years Jiang Ding Xian learnt theory from Mr Huang Zi and wasdeeply influenced by him. He, He Luting, Chen Tianhe and Liu Xuean werecalled "four big disciples" of Mr Huang Zi. As one of Mr Huang’s heir,his education idea made him a lifetime career for China’s higher musiceducation and he became the most impactive composer who worked for thelongest time in music teaching and had the most students. After thefounding of new China, Jiang Dingxian, as the central academy of musiccomposition and founder, had made outstanding contributions to the newdevelopment of professional music in China.In Mr. Jiang whole life, he has had not just only focus on heavyteaching and management, but also try to created so many music which isgo down to posterity until nowadays, it is including a variety of genresin the form of songs, choral music, piano, orchestra works, etc..Representative works include: art song 《Love song》、《Peace of Mind》、《Years Gone By》， Choral 《For the Sake of Our Motherland》、《Chirpingsof the Deer》， piano song 《Lullaby》、《Piano Variation》(Jiang Xi folkthemes)、《Dance Music》(Xinjiang folk theme)、《SUITE IN G MINOR》， theband music 《Symphonic Poem》、《Vicissitude》 and the movie musical 《EarlyFebruary》、《one unfinished chess》 and so on. His music regardless ofsize reflects the style of a music scholar, writing skill deep, broadknowledge of artistic accomplishment. He tried to melange of different cultures, like Western compositional techniques with Chinese folk musiccombine language, his music was permeated with impassioned, or euphemismlong, or elegant, expressed his perception of life and art.Throughout his life, music events, piano creation is occupy animportant position.Not only he was always emphasized piano an importantmanifestation of musical ideas, but also an important part of the musicimage. His piano music has worked on the development of Chinese nationalstyle piano progressive role in different term. This is not just requirestime to adapt to the history of the urgent need for a certain number ofChinese piano teaching, but also enriches the piano repertoireperformances of China, and has a profound impact on the sound of musicmore than the pursuit of national style and technique development. Whetherit is music drawn or musical form, melody and harmony, polyphony, suchas the use of techniques that he attaches great importance to the creationof national style questions, the selection of the most original ethnicfolk tunes adapted from the piano, accompanied by change in harmonyneither did the fullness of sound, pentatonic pitch sense yet, adhere tothe aesthetic principles of the nation, so that works remain concise,simple to understand, and charm deep artistic style.Because of war and unrest, Mr. Jiang Dingxian piano works were notable to survive all currently seen major works (including Mi Do Rei) Total22. In addition to the previously mentioned 《Lullaby》,《PianoVariation》(Jiangxi folk theme),《Dance Music》(Xinjiang folk theme),《SUITE IN G MINOR》, part of the need for the creation of teaching pianosongs, such as 《Lyric》,《The Music Studio and the Street》,《Going toMarket》《Pieces In Classical European Style》《Sonatina》 and so on;based on folk songs and creative adaptation of the piano, such as:《Mongolian Dance Music》,《Folk Song of Wuxi》, etc., as Film Musicallocated piano《Song of Ah Fu》 as well as the creation of Jiang Xianding 《SUITE IN G MINOR》 in his old age, and a piano suite written for youngpeople,《Tour of Gansu》 are widely praised. Among these, the majorityof works are included in Mr. Jiang Dingxian old age organize student XuShumin investment, the Central Conservatory of Music published by "JiangDingxian Portfolio "(published in1992), only the 《Lingering Song》due to music was lost, without publication. Later, his students,composers, Mr. Bao YuanKai notation for teachers finishing the song willeventually be included in the2011series by the Jiang Qiao, in book nameof " Jiang DingXian piano selections " which is published by CentralConservatory of MusicSearching for information on the current resource, directed againststudy handful piano works for Jiang Dingxian whether this is the historyof his music career as a deletion and omissions? Or is the creation ofthe field of his piano neglect? This article will attempt to analyze theJiang qiao compiled, the Central Conservatory of Music Publishing House"Jiang Dingxian piano selections " all works, to sum up the artisticfeatures of his piano music, and explore their creative ideas and socialcauses, contemplation and review of the20th century since thenationalization of piano music in the course of development of China,meanwhile, certainly given the role of Jiang DingXian in Chinese pianomusic career development, ultimately, objective evaluation of hishistorical position and its far-reaching effect.This artistic includes an introduction, body and conclusion of threeparts, of which body part of three chapters, the first chapter is givenJiang DingXian and piano creation overview of review. Second chapter,"Jiang DingXian given piano election" all the piano repertoire, from theaspects of nationalization development melody, harmonic language,polyphonic technique, musical structure, such as a comprehensive andin-depth analysis and draw the relevant river given cents creation the brief conclusions. The third chapter in the above analysis, on the basisof combing, summarizes the set of Jiang DingXian creative ideas.In conclusion, affirmed the status of the Jiang Dingxian, who is inthe20th century Chinese musical culture construction and development.Jiang DingXian is one of the most deputy people in Chinese music career.His creative concept help Chinese higher level music education to goingbetter; his piano music creation has been opened up the road to the worldstage. Meanwhile, this artistic also pointed out the limitations of Jiangdingxian piano music, and expound the author of several views in earlypiano music development.