A Study Of The Ethnic Elements In The Works

Chinese GuZheng rise in the Spring and Autumn Period of Qin, develop to the heyday on the Tang Dynasty, Song and Yuan dynasties developed fourteen and fifteen stringe’s GuZheng. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, social unrest, GuZheng music was dying, because the majority of GuZheng music is no formal notation, resulting in a huge loss of traditional music. Until the 1930 s GuZheng music began to recover, development to the fifties and sixties, appeared innovative playing techniques, the further evolution and development on the 1980 s and 1990 s, it has created a new situation in the development of GuZheng music until this century.After the 1950’s, the education of GuZheng is gradually on the road of specialization. Breakthrough geographical barrier between the various schools, exchanges become more frequent, so there are rapid development of GuZheng music, the art of GuZheng upgraded to a new level, the traditional techniques with new breakthroughs, many new playing techniques are constantly emerging. By the 1980 s, with many professional composers began writing GuZheng music led by Mr. He Zhanhao, They use creative techniques and creation of modern philosophy, inject new vitality to the traditional GuZheng music.Mr. He Zhanhao is outstanding Chinese musician and composer, he created the renowned Chinese and foreign outstanding works, as a modern composer, he has always been " external form of nationalization, modernization of national music " as a motto for creation. His work left a deep impression for the audience with the beautiful melody, profound connotation and simple style. His creative works involve different instrumental, he creation of a number of well-known songs, especially in the GuZheng music, representative works like "Lin’an grudge", " King of Western Chu ", "jasmine fragrance" and so on. Some of them, like "Lin’an grudge" and "King of Western Chu" breaking the traditional GuZheng solo play mode, instead of using the GuZheng and piano playing together, so that music has a certain tension, but also made the technical difficulty,these works of Mr. He Zhanhao can be said to be a microcosm of modern GuZheng music creation. These outstanding works are widely spread at home and abroad, they are already beyond the barriers of culture, so that the traditional Chinese GuZheng music had become influential melody in the international.In this paper, Based on the works of Mr. He Zhanhao’s GuZheng music form analysis, to explore the works of folk music elements used in the musical content, the language of music expression of emotion, and so on, in order to understand Mr. He Zhanhao’s Guzheng music brought the significance and impact for the development of modern music...