Music Study Of Zhao Zhang's Piano Music "Nature No.1"

After more than 100 years of exploration and accumulation,Chinese piano music has gradually diversified its creative style.How to make the piano carry 5000 years of Chinese culture to the world and become an emissary of music culture and a bridge for national communication is the direction that many composers in China have been striving for.Zhang Chao,the contemporary composer,has been devoting himself to the creation of Chinese piano music works for several decades and has the courage to do so Explore,innovate,absorb the essence of the nation and carry forward the Oriental civilization."Nature one" is a piano solo composed by Zhang Chao in 2018.It is composed of two movements of "meditation on ice and snow" and "sound poem of fire".It is quite different from the author's previous works in terms of creative style.The author actively explores the relationship between piano and nature,human and nature,and makes philosophical thinking on all things in the universe.His works are ingenious in conception and unique in technique.In terms of creation,Mr.Zhang Chao boldly imagined,challenged and broke through himself,and created the "half key performance method" and "echo pedal after sound" performance methods.The new performance techniques are closely combined with the music content of the works,and are integrated into one,so as to better express the "Eastern soul" of the piano he pursues.In the performance characteristics,the music performance of this work puts forward high requirements for the performer,who not only needs to have skilled performance technology,but also has accurate understanding andrich imagination of the music cultural connotation of the work,so as to express the unique music image that the author wants to show.About the research of this paper,the author collected the first-hand creation materials of "nature No.1" by interviewing the author Zhang Chao's teacher,consulted a large number of relevant documents,analyzed and studied its music form,harmony,melody and other music noumenon carefully and detailedly,made performance interpretation on its rhythm,speed,strength,performance method,timbre and other aspects,and finally made the implication of its sound The connotation of music culture is deeply explored.Find out its unique style of sound construction,analyze its music's internal creative characteristics,and put forward reasonable suggestions for the use of "nature one" in piano performance.Through the study of this work,I have a deep understanding of Zhang Chao's piano creation style.I hope that in the future,I can carry out a more in-depth and systematic study in this field,and provide some reference for the relevant personnel in this field.