Piano Concerto "mountains" Research

Over the past close century, the piano concerto has been recognized and applied by Chinese musicians, and the bringing in of symphonic music thoughts has opened up a new approach to combine the eastern and western musical cultures. In the 1930s, Mr. Wen-ye Jiang composed the first piano concerto in China, which started a new chapter for the composition of piano concertos around the country and laid for its full bloom in the 1980s. Among the works of that time, The Mountain Forest by Dun-nan Liu stood out for its close musical logic, elegant overall structure and a brand new musical temperament. It also presents the fusion and innovation of eastern and western cultures by drawing lessons from both the Chinese minority music and the western musical style.The present thesis mainly studies the work from the following four aspects:The first chapter is an introduction to the composer Dun-nan Liu and his work The Mountain Forest, including the composing background as well as its overall structure. Chapter Two is an ontological study of the work, a thorough analysis of its musical form, harmony, mode and tonality. The third chapter examines its nationality from its combination of musical elements—melody, orchestration, harmony, rhythm and meter, and aesthetic connotations, and the ethnic cultural elements—the musical features, local conditions and customs of the Miao Minority. And then follows Chapter Four, a study of its performing techniques.The thorough and intensive analysis of The Mountain Forest helps to open out the perfect combination of modern composing techniques and the Chinese Minority musical melodies in Dun-nan Liu's composition, which is of great significance to a full understanding of the performing style in this work.