Two Zhou Manli's Vocal Works

Zhou Manli, is a national first-rate composer and also a rare female composer inHubei Province. She creates lots of strong ideological, high art level and distinctHubei regional style music.The songs written by Zhou Manli have strong regional characteristics of Hubeiprovince and unique creativity, which combine the modern music concept withtraditional folk tones. The songs, with regional style and characteristic of art songs,have high art level. The paper takes two of her most representative vocal music works<My Brother comes back> and <Shout Ba Mountain, Shout Qing River> as theresearch object through exclusive interviews and text audio data collection tounderstand Zhou’s vocal music creation. The paper summarize her creationcharacteristics through the analysis of music form and creation technique and analyseher singing based on grasping the role, emotional processing, embellishing chamber,pronunciation and breath.