A Brief Analysis Of The Performing Art Of Guqin Transplanted Zheng Music

With the vigorous development of modern guzheng art,many Zheng performers are no longer limited to playing traditional Zheng music,a large number of modern creation and transplanting ensembles have emerged.The transplant song is an important part of today s Zheng music works.Among them,there are a group of Zheng music transplanted from Qin music,such as 'Memoriam','A Conversation Between God and Man','Plum-blossom in Three Movements','Guangling Verse' and so on.As one of the 'four gentlemen in the flower',as one of 'Four Gentlemen Among Flowers',plum-blossom is a metaphor for the high-quality character of the literati,and Mr.Gu Meigeng once commented on this song,'The music is purely positive,not mixed,the most pure,indeed plum-blossom.'The theme of 'Plum-blossom in Three Movements' is in line with the educational significance of Qin's 'chanting to the accompaniment of Qin would never ends' for the scholars of the time.'Guangling Verse' is the only ancient song which has the struggle of contradiction among Qin music.It describes the story of Nie Zheng and Han Wang,its musical theme is inconsistent with the spirit of the ethics and morality and possesses a certain degree of typicality in Qin works.'Plum-blossom in Three Movements' and 'Guangling Verse' as the top ten famous songs of Qin are not only having great significance in Qin art,but also its homonymic Zheng songs have representativeness for transplanting Zheng songs.Therefore,this thesis selects these two pieces of music as the research object,mainly using the methods of literature research,comparative research,experience summarization,and investigation(conversation)to interpret the musical thoughts,creations,performance techniques and musical images of the works,in order to better explore the timbre imitation and style in the actual performance,and how to better reproduce the melody in the actual performance of the Zheng by analyzing the two songs and its homonymic songs.On this account,we could enrich the performance techniques and tone changes of Zheng music to some extent.The full text mainly includes four aspects:?.Overview of the works of Qin and its homonymic Zheng songs 'Guangling Verse' and'Plum-blossom in Three Movements'.?.The comparative analysis of the music form of of the works of Qin and its homonymic Zheng songs 'Guangling Verse' and 'Plum-blossom in Three Movements' in the theme,structure and mode.?.The imitation of the Qin timbre and the interpretation of the musical image in the performance of Zheng songs 'Guangling Verse' and 'Plum-blossom in Three Movements'.?.Sum up the meaning of the music transplant and the related thinking on the development of Chinese traditional music.