Tan Xiaolin Analysis Of Art Songs

Mr. Tan Xiaolin’s three art songs " Since you Went Away"," Parting " and " The Peng Lang Rocky " was created in1939-1946in the United States during the period, also had his composition instructors, twentieth Century outstanding composer and theorist Hindemith guidance and approval.The first two songs in the United States use English performance and has produced certain effect, so the three art songs also completely can be regarded as representative of the creation of Tan Xiaolin’s mature period.Based on the three song lyrics creation theme, genre, melody and harmony structure technical system, and analysis of Tan Xiaolin’s creation, exploring his musical style, and summarizes and generalizes how he innovation in the inheritance of Xing’s theoretical system after.The full text is divided into four parts, the first part briefly introduces Tan Xiaolin’s life and writing experience and main works, analyzes his main contribution to China’s music career and status in the Chinese music history and meaning.The second part through the analysis of the theme and the creation of art song genre material characteristics in understanding songs of Tan Xiaolin from, starting from the lyrics as well as the cultural background of the song lyrics of material, content, and summarizes the artistic characteristics in his writing.Third, the four part is this article key point, mainly carries on the comprehensive analysis and Study on Tan Xiaolin’s later with Hindemith after learning by composing techniques, including third from the main part of Tan Xiaolin’s art song melody of multi-level, change arrangement through the relationship between level of melody, the lyrics and melodies, the layout rhythm and musical structure analysis to organize, summarize the main characteristic of its creation from the horizontal development by means of;The fourth part, from the point of view of the harmonic structure of Tan Xiaolin’s art songs, through processing structure, hannony in harmony of materials arrangement, layout mode and characteristics of piano texture, and the characteristics of his later works out from the vertical sum up, to see how he is creative use of twentieth Century NEW composing techniques and to produce a characteristic of the Chinese style.This paper will through the horizontal and vertical solid angle, a comprehensive analysis of Tan Xiaolin’s later works of music creation techniques, to further understand how he creatively applying Hindemith theory system, and how to form their own unique style, and then with the Chinese national style of Polyphony in his exploration of the idea was summarized, obtained guiding principles to follow from the theory, and obtained the operation way of writing in practice.