Guqin is a Chinese traditional national instrument,and the music of Guqin is the oldest and most widespread musical form as we know.With evolving more than three thousand years,it has integrated with poetry and formed a unique music genre-"The songs of Guqin".Entering the new period,diverse musical culture has brought unprecedented influences and impacts to traditional Guqin music.Also the inheritance of contemporary Guqin songs is changing constantly.The paper,taking the well-known Guqin songs Yeung Guan Farewell as an example,traces to its origin and development,and studies on the performing art of the similar Guqin songs.It attempts to make an analysis from the aspects of ancient Chinese tone and singing melody and discuss their correlation.The simple analysis of the similarity of "The songs of Guqin"and the combination with traditional and modem musical elements not only is helpful to promote and develop Chinese national musical culture,buts also provide a referential idea to carry forward Guqin songs.Moreover,it will put more energy to the creation and adaption of the popular music.The purpose of this paper is to comb this approach of creation and to seek a new way that can be applied to singing concert,so as to provide more possibilities to the development of national music in the new era. |