On The Creation And Artistic Features Of Chinese Modern And Contemporary Songs

Enlightened by the modern culture,the modern and contemporary songs of our country came into existence at the beginning of the establishment of the PRC(the People’s Republic of China) and had a style of its own after going through the baptism of Reform and Opening up.Over the past several decades, the M&C songs(Modern and Contemporary songs) had formed elementray creative characteristrics,which are closely related to the background of China’s history and culture.From the aspect of emotional basis, M&C songs depict varies feelings,including patriotism,nostalgia,domestic affection and friendship which correspond to the trend of the times.In terms of the linguistics of lyrics.M&C songs embrace rhythmics,rthetoric,and other multi-creative techniques. As for the trends of the creative techniques,M&C songs reserve the uniqueness of Chinese traditional music while they’re still drawing on the theories of Westorn traditional composing techniques,realizing the goal of adapting foreign things for Chinese use and achieving the desorved effect of “Sino-West” blend.The thesis,displays and analyzes the history development of Chinese M&C Songs composition. With specific productions at hand,it studies the songs’ artistic characteristics from the respect of the creating process.In addition to that,this thesis summarizes the ideological trends of Chinese M&C songs in writing techniques and styles,according to the contemp popular and well-known works,aiming at providing some experience and help to those song-creating lovers.