Erhu Playing Techniques Of The Twentieth Century, The Development And Application

We can roughly divide the development of Erhu performing technique in the 20th century into 4 category, which is (1) 20^th century till 40^th century, (2) 50^th century till the beginning of 60^th century, (3) the end of 60^th century till the end of 70^th century, (4) 80^th century till foe end of the decade.At the beginning of 20^th century, ZHOU Shao-mei contributed a lot in spreading, advising and developing the erhu performing techniques which never been done by otters before. The name of " ZHOU Shao-mei three handle part string instrument" appear when her braveness encouraged her to break the traditional erhu rules where left hand fingers can only move at the upper part of the strings. She reform the traditional idea and enable the fingers to move freely among 3 part of the strings, which is the upper, middle and lower part of the strings. After LIU Tian-hua, the master of the Chinese Orchestra learnt the " ZHOU Shao-mei three handle part string instrument" performing technique, then he once again improved tie erhu's technique and bring the instrument into the higher profession education. When erhu being officially defined as a solo instrument, 10 erhu masterpieces such as "Moonlit Night" , "Leisure", "Walk in Bright" etc. and 4 erhu exercises being composed. Another well known folk music master, HUA Yan-jun appear as a homeless artist, he live and perform the erhu art for the low class community at that time. All his masterpieces are perform using erhu. His masterpieces included "Reflection of Moon in Er-Quan","Listen to the voice of pines" and "Chilly Spring"represented his terrifying life, in which bring out his own unique performing styie.Around the 50^th to 60 century, during the "Revolution of Arts", the erhu performing art gain lots of improvement, especially in 1963 when the 4th " Shanghai's Spring" introduced a whole bunch of erhu masterpiece and artist this bring erhu to an improvement that no body had seen beforeJBegin from 80^th century, there are 3 types of erhu masterpiece compose style, (1) Erhu Concerto, (2) implant recompose and (3) the new age work. This three types of work enable erhu to develop from many parts and pushed the erhu performing techniques to a new age.Through the development of erhu performing techniques research, exploring the routine and the uniqueness of the erhu folk lyric, all these are very important and is a must in order to keep the traditions, renew, and encourage the development of erhu performing techniques.As the new young generation of erhu professional artist, we need to understand deeply tie community ways of living and . their mental activities, empower the true meaning of tie masterpieces, using the suitable performing techniques in order to reach the higher stage of art's performance. At the same time, we need to abstract the benefits of the Chinese traditional music, while add in western perfect music performing' techniques, keep on the good efforts, dare to renovate, create something that not only contam the unique features of the traditional music, but also full of new age features which are acceptable and , love by others.Now in the 21^st century, with confidence, I believe that erhu business can step into another newer improved stage.