An Analysis Of The Music And Concert Scene In The Narrative Song The Cowherd And The Weaving Maid

The narrative song the Cowherd and the Weaving Maid is one of excellent vocal musical works written by Mr. Wang Zhixin and Mr. Liu Lin, which is on Chinese ancient legends of the Cowherd and the girl weaver’s love story. It was based on Chinese traditional ethnic Pentatonic and has the typical characteristics of Chinese folk music and language. The musical idea of this song is imposing, which detailedly portraits of different characters and stories scenes. It was a difficult Chinese national vocal musical works on singing technique and emotional expression.This paper is classified into three chapters. The first chapter is the summary of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maid introducing the background of the story and music layout.The second chapter analyzes the music and concert scene and introduces song’s musical structure, and the specific song music scene, analysis of difficult performance of different aria, emotional expression and picture reproduction. The Third chapter focus on the thought of music background in the Cowherd and the Weaving Maid and summary of the refined theory of the works.