The Characteristics Of Broken Dreams Left Behind And How It Is Represented

Composed by Zhao Jiping and lyrics by Han Jingting, Broken Dreams Left Behind, is a piece of outstanding work. It has owned its reputation all over the world of the Chinese national vocality. This song, both in terms of emotion or its representation, embodies quite a high level of modern art song creation in China. In order to have a deeper understanding of this song, this paper will have a further discussion on the characteristics of Broken Dreams Left Behind and how it is represented. Therefore, to serve this purpose, the writer will analyze the song’s creation background, lyrics and melody with the combination of her years experience in vocal music learning, the stage practice and her teaching. This paper sees itself as a bridge between Broken Dreams Left Behind and singers, for whom in a hope to build a vivid singing style and characters in the song.