A Study Of Chinese Melody In The Anthology Of Zhang Chao Piano

"Chinese Melody" is an excellent piano album edited by Chinese contemporarycomposer Zhang Chao. It gets a high evaluation both home and abroad which hasbeen spread to Germany, Austria, Poland and other western nations. The portfolio hasbeen reprinted for three times. The composer based on innovation, conducted a widerange of derivatives and expanded on20outstanding Chinese traditional folkmelodies and songs. On the basis of Chinese traditional music culture, combined withsophisticated artistic ideas, personality writing style, unique creative skills andmodern piano composition techniques, Zhang has created a series of outstandingpiano works which are distinct personality, full-bodied style, unique flavor anddistinctive modern music styles. This paper will mainly analyze the piano album withfollowing aspects:First, in the application of harmony, the piano album works are mainly analyzedin the usage of tonality and harmony. Particularly, the use of a variety of tonalcomposer expansion techniques to create new harmonies audio and rich colorvariations, expressed the music content precisely and delicately. It also performeddiverse, innovative and flexible features when using harmonies exhibit, whichorganically combined pentatonic style melodies with modern harmony system.Second, on the polyphonic writing, through the analysis of its polyphonic musicwriting style, especially the study of several characteristics of polyphony music, thispaper combed the polyphonic features of "Chinese Melody" from the perspective ofthe horizontal melody lines.Third, on the innovative analysis of arranger thinking, researches in terms of theway of thinking, music architecture and piano texture have been done. Bymacroscopically analyzing the musical form, as well as microscopically inquiring theform of section, motive, and phrase, this paper explored the use of strict internalstructure of the organization to build musical personality way to show scouring thecomposer of the "Chinese Melody" form, the concise musical language, deepemotional content, the mind of presentation and development, the wealth of musicexpression and colorful arranger colors created by the composer for "ChineseMelody".Expect that the development of the piano music may touch the world better bymore and more useful explorations.