The Brief Analysis Of Performance Innovation Of The Dulcimer Concerto 《YaYueQingGe》

"YaYueQingGe" is a dulcimer work composed by Professor Liu HanLi of Shenyang Conservatory of Music in 2013. This work was played in the seminar of China’s 2nd Dulcimer Art Festival of Baotou in 2014, and in the lecture gived by Professor Liu HanLi in Xi An Conservatory of Music, which was highly praised by the teachers of every college. The inspiration of this work comes from a Tang Dynasty’s poet, LuoBin Wang, of his poem "Chun ye wei ming fu zhai yan de chun zi", and was created according to the conception of the poem. This song has eight section, each section’s title comes from the verse of the poem. This song’s music’s style and performance’s skill is innovated and unique. The composer fisrtly used a play mode called "two hands two hammer", which means four hammers at all, and also created the performance’s skill one hand holding two hammer in high speed, which has put forwad a higher request for the contemporary dulcimer performance’s skill. In addition, this song has taken example by the special melody of Chinese classic music, imitated Chinese zither’s performance characteristic, attempting to make the foreign instrucment dulcimer posess more Chinese classic style. The author will make a deep analysis of the innovated performance’s skill of "YaYueQingGe" through the interview with the composer and her own performance’s experience.