| The composition of Chinese zither music in modern times has gradually come toa diversified development period, many composers not only emphasize the playingtechnique innovation, but also put more and more focus on connotation of music.Since the1970s, Xu Xiaolin has been a professional composer who devoted in thenational instrumental music composition, especially Chinese zither musiccomposition. Her work skillfully exerts and employs traditional music material,combines with the modern composition technique, and add her unique compositionconcept to present an extremely distinctive music style. In this paper, it analyzes themodern Chinese zither music Lyrical Fantasy, which is one of the representativeworks of Xu Xiaolin.This song used traditional Chinese way of changing rhythm,thisfreedon of changing the rhythm provide the essence of diverse notes,including theartist feeling and allow the artist to produce a free style music.The author analyzes from their own playing experience by learning take theway of theory with practice from the composing characteristics, music performanceand playing techniques and so, to have a more comprehensive and deeper analysis ofthe composer’s composition intention, and brings a better understanding for theplayers on the vivid performance of Xu Xiaolin’s work piece, and assists with theperformance understanding and technique mastering. |