Chen Mingzhi (1925-2009) was a composer, musical educator, and polyphonytheorist of the first generation after the foundation of New China. He graduated fromShanghai Conservatory of Music, where he spent nearly60years working onpolyphony education and research. He applied Western music artistic techniques toChinese national materials, thus, he opened up a new path to Chinese polyphonymusic. There are altogether15books written by him,4monographs,40pieces ofessays and translation works.This thesis will begin with the background and theory research of ChenZhiming’s piano music, then try to divide his piano music works into differentclassifications. The key point is to study Chen Mingzhi’s works of music and analysisof piano performance, then to uncover his work style, feature, and writing technique. |