Liu Dunnan Piano Concerto "the Forest" Creative Techniques

In the early period of 20th century, Piano Concerto was introduction in China from Western Europe and at first time was known and used by Chinese Musicians. Thein troduction of thought of Symphonic music blazed the new trail of perfect combination with eastern and western music culture.Among all the representative work, the Piano Concerto named Mountain Forest which also called ShanLin was composed by Mr. Liu Dunnan in the end of the seventies made itself the real magnum opus for its strict logic of music and particular total layout. To absorb the essence of music of ethnic minorities, and to use western music writing style for reference, this art of work showed the perfect combination and revolution with eastern and western music culture.The Piano Concerto Mountain Forest gained a secure foothold of the ethnic music and used appropriate technique and appreciation of composing to illustrate the thought and passion of the current generation. So it is the outstanding ethnic style piano concerto work in modern and contemporary in china. The author analyses the technique and appreciation of composing such as theme, musical form, and means of harmony. And especially though the comparatively analyses each chapter of Mountain Forest, the author Circumstantial elaborates Mr. Liu's idea of the combination among the eastern ethnic music and western tradition culture of music as well as modern technique of composing.