Research On Liu Cong’s Creation And The Singing Of His Artistic Songs

Taking Liu Cong’s creation and singing of art songs as the research object, this paperanalyzes the technique and art style from the perspective of the school of music, music aesthetics,music history, psychology of vocal music art, composition theory such as melody, harmony andmusical form, and aesthetics, as well expounds the combination of Bel Canto and the traditionalChinese folk singing. With the premise that following the traditional Chinese aesthetic mentality,the national vocal music in the pursuit of the rich timbre, coordination and integration of thelanguage and the exquisite Run-cavity etc are fully applied to the works of individualperformance, this paper discusses the art songs of Liu Cong ’s technical requirements and artisticstyle, Make full use of their works to the individuation, in order to accurately express theemotional artistic works.This paper mainly consists of three parts:Introduction. The introduction is divided into two parts. The first part is an overview of artsongs’ development in China. As a kind of art songs originated in Western vocal music genre ofart, its artistic features, style and creative skills are different due to different historical era,different ethnic customs; different countries, different regions and different schools; the artist’spersonality. The development of Chinese art songs was born in the environment of the emergenceof school music and five four new culture movement, and pushed by continuous efforts andpersistent pursuit of the composer and singer in different periods. Today, the development ofChinese art songs ushered in the spring. A large number of outstanding music workers aredevoted to the creation of art songs, which makes the progress and development Chinese artsongs better.The second part is an overview of Liu Cong ’s personal growth experience and artistic songcreation background. As a famous composer, he was born and grew in PRC, so he hassystematical and professional music education. He had his bachelor degree in Department of artmusic education in Liaoning Institute of Education, master degree in Central Conservatory ofMusic, which laid a solid technical foundation for his later art song creation. Liu Cong continuedto explore in a few decades of professional music teaching and music creation practice andeventually" established the art songs of life coordinate-as my life to art song creation direction".He determined to realize his innovation of Chinese art songs through art songs.The first chapter summarizes Liu Cong art song creation technique characteristics based on the analysis of the melody, harmony, music, lyrics and binding from the perspective ofcomposing theory. The author analyzes the characteristics of his creation techniques from fouraspects, namely, the traditional music and Western techniques of composition of absorbing andinnovation, the use of folk material, lyrical, coloratura melody creation technique utilization,piano accompaniment and special texture features.The second chapter analyzes the works lyric, age, culture and aesthetic taste from the angleof musical aesthetics, and sums up Liu Cong art song creation artistic characteristics. This partinterprets the artistic characteristics and temperament from the perspective of the personalcharacter, highlighting the distinct characteristics of the times, the rich cultural connotation andaesthetic pursuit.The third chapter talks about Liu Cong art song’s singing style. this part analyzes Liu Congart song based on examples. Based on Chinese aesthetic psychology, Liu Cong art song creationpays attention to the combination of Western singing skill and Chinese national music. As for thesinging skills, This technique is the language of music, rather than isolated technology". As forthe art of singing, what is necessary is to have the necessary emotional experience, to grasp thevarious songs, and to transmit the proper expression elements. The first two chapters are the keychapters of the text.This paper draws a conclusion that Liu Cong is one of the contemporary Chinese art songcreation outstanding representatives. He never caters to a popular fashion taste without anysecular beliefs and utilitarian appetitive effects. He devotes himself to the creation of art songs,and achieves remarkable achievement. He has already created more than100art songs, bothBuddhism songs, chorus divertimento creation. These achievements show his love and highlycreative enthusiasm to art songs. Under the influence of traditional Chinese culture, Liu Cong’sart song creation permeated with a strong national flavor. His sharp artistic intuition makes hisworks manifest the spirit of the times style, and more than20years of honed the skilledtechniques and profound artistic accomplishment made his unique creative technique and artisticstyle. His works, with a distinctive personality, are outstanding and become an independentschool in Contemporary Chinese art song works, as well become the important content of themusic stage, vocal music classroom and music research.