An Analysis Of The Musical Style And Singing Of Zhao Jiping's Ancient Poetry And Art Song "You Orchid Exercise"

Ancient poetry is the treasure of Chinese culture for thousands of years.Influenced by ancient writers,Chinese composers have also composed many excellent ancient poetry art songs.Among many excellent works,Zhao Jiping's style is unique.His works are not only of various styles and themes,but also of great output.In his more than 40 years writing career,his ancient poetry art songs with tactful,exciting melody,deeply rooted in the hearts of the people,widely spread in major concerts and competitions.Zhao Jiping always adheres to the foundation of national music,integrates Chinese traditional modes with western composition techniques,learns from the brilliant achievements of our country's art songs in the early 1920 s,absorbs and learns from the previous experience,and at the same time keeps pace with the times to create diversified works.The style of his works is elegant and simple,and the melody lines are beautiful and fluent,which highlights his views and insights on Chinese folk music.This article will start from the development of Chinese ancient poetry art songs,combined with Zhao Jiping's life and music writing style,through the analysis of his representative work You Lan Cao,through the analysis of his music style and singing and practice,in order to make the singers get a deeper understanding in learning and singing ancient poetry art songs.This paper analyzes the music style and singing of You Lan Cao,and its aesthetic features in the beauty of word,tune and voice.Through the comparative analysis of singing versions and combined with personal experience to explore the secret of ancient poetry and art songs singing,and thus arouse the thinking of how to inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional culture of today's China.Through the paper writing,I hope to provide useful suggestions and thinking for other vocal music singers and learners.