Large Chinese Documentary Music Four Function Research

Due to the influence of the "objective" principle in documentary tradition, music is seldom used which was once a resistance art mean for the directors who advocate“pure original ecological record”. In recent years, the national economy of China is growing rapidly, and people’s spiritual and cultural needs are growing. The quality of Documentary film’s creation and the dissemination of present situation attract more and more public attention. With the concept of documentary becoming mature and the continuous improvement of market, the functions for art to express emotion and characterize images and so forth are gradually recognized and valued by people, starting a virtuous circle of harmony between music and documentary. Even so, the number of in-depth topic of articls remains small, most of them do not carry any further.In this paper, three large-scale documentaries“Recovering The Yangtse River”,“New Silk Road”and“Forest China”are taken as the main object of study. The theories of music science and communication studies of are used in this paper as the support to discuss the four features, which are distillation of the emotion for documentary music, themes deepen, style casting and social communications. In this paper, the“narrative type”of the literary concepts is introduced to provide a more detailed analysis examples for the function research of the music deepen theme. In addition, The documentary music of the social function of the spread are discussed in this paper, attempts from the communication process and the audience’s different point of dialysis documentary music dissemination enormous potential.The documentary music which is a relatively new research field is chosen, not only hope to explore the considerable of music in documentaries and the importance dissemination results at the theoretical level, but also hope to provide a meaningful reference for Chinese documentary filmmakers, directors, music and other related workers in the highly competitive demands of the public viewing.