A Study On The Three Versions Of Mao Zedong 's Poems

Abstract:Mao Zedong’s poetry,as it were, is a shining pearl in our poetry and literature history.Based on his love of Chinese traditional poetry culture, poet Mao Zedong has read a large number of ancient literary classics in his life time,and the works he created were also another milestone in the history of Chinese modern and contemporary poetry after "Chu", Tang and Song poetry;it is an epic reflecting the modern Chinese new-democratic revolution and the contemporary socialist revolution.Protean and distinctive,Mao Zedong’s poetry,with multivariate cultures and rich contents,was the innovation and development on the basis of inheriting predecessors,which constantly revealed the features with the big gain,the rich charm and the natural language.Mao Zedong’s poetry can be called fine gourmet products.In a manner of speaking,Mao Zedong’s poetry was a mirror of the heroical,great,glorious and legendary life of Mr. Mao Zedong.Mao Zedong’s poems and songs were the art songs based on the theme of Mao Zedong’s poetry,which had already exited during the anti-Japanese war in 1940.After the war of liberation and the establishment of the new China,that Mao Zedong’s poems emerged in large numbers, especially in 1957 after Mao Zedong’s poems being published publicly in POETRY, inspired countless composers’ creative passion on Mao Zedong’s poems.One of the representatives was Li Jiefu and the Mao Zedong’s poems and songs he created had reached one-third of the total of Mao Zedong’s songs.There were even more than a tune with a word.Immediately Mao Zedong’s poems all over the country had emerged rapidly like mushrooms after rain, which people sang from north to south.At the present time, Mao Zedong’s poems have already become an indispensable part of our country’s national vocal songs treasury, which are also retained in vocal music teaching of china’s colleges and universities,and are sung by the vocal music learners. Mao Zedong’s poems and songs are also appeared in the professional competitions and concert songs again again,which shows that the classic and value of them are worth of our further research.And this text employs one of Mao Zedong’s poetry,"Bligh operator, xu mei",and studies the three music versions of this poem,each created by Li Jiefu, Sun Xuanling and Xu Jiexin.The author aims at finding their differences from it and the main points when singing them,and wants to get some examples and reference values to the singing teaching in the future.Considering the research needs,the paper is made up of six parts:introduction, topic content of four chapters and epilogue. So the first chapter is introduction,including study cause,overseas and domestic research status., research methods,innovation and so on.The second chapter will introduce the text analysis of "Bligh operator, xu mei",including poetry rhyme,the reasons why Mr. Mao created the poems,the reasons for the same word with different songs and so on.The third chapter is the creation of the three musical versions of "Bligh operator, xu mei", including the creation characteristics of the three composers,reasons for creating "Bligh operator, xu mei "and its successful influences.The last chapter is the musical analysis of the three musical versions of "Bligh operator, xu mei", which includes the musical form analysis of the three musical versions,the style tone presented in the combination of poems and song;the fourth chapter is the general characteristics of singing the three songs, including style holding, the characteristics of the tunes using, pronunciation and emotional processing;Find out the characteristics, and draw the conclusion.