Music And Painting, Love And Sublimation - Luo Rong Luo Zheng Painting "music Analysis

Mr. Luo zhongrong, Chinese veteran composer with noble character and high prestige, has composed quite a lot of music works in different period of his life. His new work Artistic Imagination of Luo Zheng's painting---- Untitled No.48, in 2000, is composed based on the painting named Untitled No.48 of his son , Luo Zheng. Luo Zheng was born with cerebrum hypoplasia, but with brilliant talent in painting. He has ever produced works of painting based on his father's music works such as Dim scent and String Quartet No.2, while Artistic Imagination of Luo Zheng's painting---- Untitled No.48 is Mr. Luo's first work on the base of Luo Zheng's paintings. In Artistic Imagination of Luo Zheng's painting---- Untitled No.48 , Mr. Luo Zhongrong made whole revealing of his entatonic twelve-tone class?procedure and heightened it to higher degree, of which he devoted himself to its research and practice in quite a long period. entatonic twelve-tone class?integrated with two kinds of compositional procedures: that of twelve-tone set and pitch class. In a word, it is a twelve-tone set consisted of special principle, which is the primary foundation of the work, on the basis of entatonic class composed of four tn-elements, three qua- elements and one qui-element. In order to attain the clear effect of tone color and heighten the transparency of sound, Mr. Luo, utilizing the orchestral techniques similar with that of chamber symphony, produced his work without complex sound of common orchestra. For the sake of strengthening the effect of timber, the tone color of different pitch classes and instruments are integrated organically in particular. On the other hand, in the whole work, the methods of linear technique, sound group, sound mass and pointlism are widely used, instead of the technique of conventional harmonic texture. The technique of the various rhythmic combination in counterpoint is of most important.