A Probe Into The Playing Technique And Creative Style Of The Pipa Song "Xu Lai"

The pipa is a kind of plucked instrument with great national characteristic and traditional representation in Chinese traditional musical instruments.The pipa solo "Xulai",is a classic musical work created by Mr.Tianhua Liu,who is a Chinese national instrumentalist,composer,music educator.Based on the full reflection of the pipa's timbre and technique characteristics,this music solo incorporates Chinese traditional folk music elements,such as bass drum,etc.,at the same time it uses the ternary form of western music for reference and also adds western music terminologies,such as rit,a tempo,etc.The performance techniques and method of recording music score of this music solo absorbs a variety of western music elements,making the whole piece of music have an innovative effect of "Foreign things serve China".Mr.Liu combines the Chinese instruments with western music elements,which not only keeps the pipa's original national character of the whole piece of music,but also gives it the innovative meaning.Under the background of globalization,the pipa needs to be innovating to be more familiar to people.The organic combination of music elements between China and Western musical is an effective way.Therefore,The combination of Chinese and Western musical elements in the pipa solo "Xulai" is a very important point.This paper through analyzing musical form,finger analysis,notation analysis,creative style analysis,especially the problem of combining Chinese and Western musical elements,to think about the possibility of combining Chinese and Western elements of music.In order to interprets the artistic charm of this piece of music,and explores the shining points of it.Through the exploration and study of this piece of music,I hope oneself could broaden our own artistic vision,realize the artistic conception and creation characteristics of this piece of music more deeply so that it can be better understood and performed in the future.