Research About Piano Suite Creation With Jin Dialect·Heng-Lu Yao Style

As the home of folk song and opera,Shanxi is not only full of material resources,but also contains colorful arts and cultural resources.Many artists hold the spirit of striving throughout the East and West,as well as elegance and popularity coexist.They put regional characteristics of Shanxi music into the piano music for promotion and dissemination,and Heng-Lu Yao is the one of the outstanding representatives.Heng-Lu Yao is a professor,educator and composer of Central Conservatory of Music.During his process of artistic creation,he has produced a large number of excellent music works which is full of music theories,instrumental and vocal music creation and music teaching,and also published more than ten monographs and compilations.These remarkable artistic research achievements have established a firm foundation for the progress and development of Chinese modern music composition theory.The Collections Of Childlike Innocence,published by Shanghai Conservatory Of Music in October 2017,is the work dedicated by Mr.Heng-Lu Yao to mothers who engaged in early childhood music education.The music subjects of this work mostly come from his music life when he was young,and have rich Chinese national characteristics and various forms of performance.This work has reflected the composer's appeal of music education for Chinese teenagers,and showed the strength of national musical education.This article picks a representative piano suite from The Collections Of Childlike Innocence-the Five Creative Piano Pieces which is created for the theme of Shanxi Qitai yangko,and chooses Seven Pieces For Shanxi Folk Songs,the unpublished work by Mr.Heng-Lu Yao as research object.It takes composition analysis as the theoretical starting point and piano performance as the entrance to practice,and combines with the development and characteristics of current Shanxi native music culture.It does comprehensive and targeted researches to material selection,regional culture,composing skills and style and characteristics.Then it combs the inheritance and development of local culture,and the analysis and deduction of Shanxi music.The main content of this paper includes five parts,consisted by introduction,main body(Chapter one to four)and conclusion as follows:Introduction Research the origins and significance,relevant literature reviews,and clarify the contents and methods of the research.Chapter one Heng-Lu Yao and his musical creation overview,introduce the composer's artistic career and his musical creation process,and comb his theory,instrumental music works,academic paper,vocal music works and so on.Chapter two Resume of Shanxi folk music culture,do the research of reflecting the multi-angle track and classify to Shanxi native music development.Chapter three Analyze the ethnic elements and creation techniques of two works relevant to Shanxi,and introduce the national music elements inside and its vigorous use,and analyze the creation techniques from four respects:musical structure,mode and tonality,rhythm and beat and sound texture,and finally extend the style characteristics of the work.Chapter four A guide to teaching and performance of these two works.On the basis of hands-on performance practice,give relevant suggests to Shanxi regional piano music style and its direction of the aesthetic implication of the living state inheritance.Reflect the Shanxi folk music elements in the work,and realize the playing and teaching value of Chinese folk piano music works.Conclusion Demonstration the prominent position of The Collections Of Childlike Innocence and Seven Pieces For Shanxi Folk Songs in the development and creation of Chinese folk piano music.Cases study of his specific works,which underline the creation ideas and style characteristics of Heng-Lu Yao,and trigger thoughts on the future development and teaching of Chinese folk music piano works.