The Formation And Development Of Chinese Folk Orchestra First Exploration

Folk orchestra, also referred to folk music, is a music genre based on historicalaccumulation of over eighty thousand years of Chinese traditional musicalinstrument, after approximately hundreds of years and several generations of reformand practice, discussion and argument, and in the late of twentieth century gained arelative consensus music genre as “folk orchestra”. Folk orchestra is a kind oflarge-scaled form of band performances, which is formed and developed graduallyduring late twentieth century in China. Chinese folk orchestra is formed based onwind instrument, percussion, plunked string instrument, and bowed instrument fourparts.This article discusses the developing history of Chinese folk orchestra in threeparts in chronologically: the first part talks about ancient Chinese music group aspart of macro historic, and the second part talks about the birth and development ofChinese folk orchestra with development of the time. Along with the growth ofmodern folk orchestra, some orchestras gradually establish. In the wake of influx ofwestern culture and scientific and technological knowledge, relationship betweenwest and east, ancient and modern, as well as the problems caused during thedevelopment of Chinese folk orchestra in twentieth century, such as organization ofthe orchestra, balance of the audio in orchestra, tone, problems in rehearsal, andother obvious and complicated topics. The third part discusses the creation ofChinese folk orchestra, and the rhythm style should reflect essence of folk music.Chinese folk orchestras need composers, who really understand folk orchestra, havepractical experience in orchestras, and have the ability to master folk musicinstruments, to create more outstanding works, and to think the future direction forChinese folk orchestra.With the development of the times and the rapid process of science andtechnology, after decades of hard work, Chinese folk orchestra has been developedto an orchestra with unique instruments, sound, performance, and style compare toorchestra in different countries and areas. It displays the special taste of the national spirit and culture.