A Comparative Study On Chinese And Western Film Music Art Characteristics In The1950s And1960

From1950s to1960s, Eastern and western film music, its form of manifestation as wellas development history and others present a distinctive glamour in an overall appearance style.This paper uses research methods such as cultural communication, ethnology and musicologytheory, studies the development of film music in this period of time including the function andeffect of film music as well as its form and style of manifestation by virtue of document analysis,and lays the special emphasis to the function and effect of film music (artistic function, aestheticfunction and social function). The author collects plenty of documents, audio and video data ofeastern and western film music from1950s to1960s analyzes and studies objectively andthoroughly by taking the examples of the film music of domestic Red Classics as well asHollywood musical film and so on. Besides, the author also takes advantage of the opportunity ofshort-term exchange at home and abroad to investigate film studios related with this researchcontents and cultivates a more profound understanding of the development of domestic andoverseas film music in this period of time. For example, there are film music eulogizing heroes,glorifying motherland, pertaining to Red Classics and some other fresh film music of minorities.Thus the paper comparatively analyzes the characteristics of eastern and western film music from1950s to1960s. In terms of the different social background and cultural connotation reflected bymusic reality, creative style, aesthetic characteristics and the property of development, the authorexpounds the status of that time as well as the contemplation of the prospective and so on.