The Cultural Pursuit Of Guo Wenjing Music Creation

In contemporary creation groups, Guo Wenjing is one of the most concernedacademic composers, and he is known as “the only Chinese composer who establishesthe international reputation without living overseas for a long time.” His worksexpresses the Chinese traditional culture by appropriately using western composingtechniques, which both have the Chinese culture and the international view, andgreatly enriched the performance of the works and expression of the contents.Among the previous articles which take the music works of GuoWenjing as theresearch object, they mostly analyse the nationality and regional of the works, or thecomprehensive technical analysis of his works, however, the further study on the levelof cultural connotation is required. This article, beginning with its creative intention,tracing back, and basing on the conversations between the author and the composerand other multi-collected materials, combs, analyses, summarizes and concludes thetypical works which permeate regional culture, literature culture, drama culture byusing the Chinese traditional cultural elements. This article takes the cultural pursuitin music creation as the starting point, combines with its personalized music languageand the feeling reflected in the music creation, and explore the reference andinnovation to the Chinese traditional music in GuoWenjing’s music creation in orderto exactly grasp the essence of culture and the spiritual connotation of his works. Thisarticle also tries to open a new dimension in the study of GuoWenjing’s music worksand hopes to inspire the contemporary music school to re-examine the thinkingconcept of the traditional in contemporary music works, and gets everyone to concernand think the cultural connotation in contemporary music creation. For this point ofview, the article explores the Chinese composer’s creative direction and thinkingpositioning during the period of multi-cultural patterns, conflict between Chinese andwestern culture and traditional idea and contemporary composition skill blending.