Qiushao Bin In The Ensemble "Festival" Analysis

Hong Kong is the mixture of Chinese and the West. The resources are relatively abundant. Hong Kong people in general can speak foreign language, but the knowledge about the Chinese traditional culture is inadequate. As Hong Kong was under the British control, the atmosphere to place higher value to Western than Chinese also affects composition. Hong Kong has many outstanding composers, some of them migrated from the mainland in the early time, and some were born locally and received music education in overseas. The former is relatively loyal to the tradition, more conservative, the latter applied more Western composition techniques, their works are more creative. Mr. Yau Sau Bun’s composition lies between both side, he can retain the traditional element, and innovative, mixing the traditional, modern, Chinese and Western technique altogether.Chinese music ensemble "Qi" contains more modern style in the works of Mr. Yau. The theme melody is a traditional Chinese pentatonic scale. This piece contains Chinese characteristics, Western classical and modern harmony. Part of it uses pure modern music style. This piece can exert traditional Chinese characteristics, but also full of modern music elements, and thus worth study.This article aims to analyze the historical status of the "Qi", a detailed study of its music features. The introduction of this article explains the object of study and methods. The first chapter elaborates Mr Yau Sau Bun’s road of learning music. The second chapter is a synthesis of Mr Yau’s composing features. The third chapter is the most important part; it analyzes the composition techniques used in "Qi", including melody, harmony, orchestration and modern techniques. Finally revolves the significance and the characteristic of "Qi", which mix traditional Chinese and Western classical and modern techniques together. Concluded that this is one of the directions of the development of Chinese musicDeclare of this article is advantageous in the scholar who intends to study the Hong Kong contemporary music for further the investigation.