A Study On "Qin School Of National Instrumental Music" From The View Of Regional Culture

"Qin School of National Instrumental Music", a creative form of music originated from the Shaanxi province of China around the second half of20th century, which was the period immediately following the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Its manifestation included: a group of National Instrumental Musicians and professional composers devoted themselves to the field of national instrumental music and created a huge amount of national instrumental music compositions that were either based on Shaanxi folk or Shaanxi style music. As time went by, local cliques of national instrumental music were gradually formed and made significant impact nationwide. These cliques include "Qin School of Erhu" and "Shaanxi School of Zheng". With more than60years of progress, professional national instrumental music of this region went from nothing to prosperity, and eventually into forming independent cliques. Such phenomenon was quite rare in the professional national instrumental music field of other regions since the founding of the People’s Republic of China. These historical trajectories regarding "Qin School of National Instrumental Music" set the motivation of this study.This study uses the "regional music culture" approach as the theoretical optic in analysing the "Qin School of National Instrumental Music". The research starts with four inherently independent but somewhat socially overlapping dimensions:"region","time","people" and "music pieces" and focuses on how "time" and "region" have impacted "people" and "music pieces". Taking Chinese professional music creation, education, and performing arts into consideration, this study interrogates the "Qin School of National Instrumental Music" from a macroscopic view. By comparing the development trends of "Qin School of National Instrumental Music" and the music of the country as a whole, the paper tries to illustrate the influence of "the presence of the country" on the development of "Qin School of National Instrumental Music".This research paper is composed of an introduction, four chapters, conclusions, and an epilogue.The introduction starts with discussions about the research object, research value as well as the current status of the research field, research dimensions, theoretical perspectives of the research, and the research strategy.Chapter one focuses on "17years after the foundation of the country" and "late nineteen eighties", two historical periods that played a critical role in the development of Chinese national instrumental National Instrumental Music. The chapter also analyzes "Qin School of National Instrumental Music" as well as its development path under the historical background of the overall development of the country.Chapter two discusses the movement of "Qin School of National Instrumental Music" in the nineteen eighties, which is commonly considered as the most glorious period by the Qin musicians. The discussions draw upon three aspects:social environment of the80’s, leaders of "Qin School of National Instrumental Music", and the developing model of national instrumental music under the Institute mechanisms.Chapter three analyzes the relationship between the creation of "Qin School of National Instrumental Music" and regional culture. This chapter discusses how the National Instrumental Music breed, as an effect of Shaanxi natural and geographical characteristics, has impacted the creation of "Qin School of National Instrumental Music". Furthermore, it also illustrates how the core characteristics of Shaanxi National Instrumental Music is inherited and diffused in contemporary instrumental music works.Taking into concrete music compositions into account, chapter four analyzes key works that best represent the "Qin School of National Instrumental Music" in detail and pays specific attention to the changing and non-chaning factors of the creative method and concept in these works. At the same time, the study also draws attention on musicians’ personal development and education background, and how they associate to the aforementioned creative style.The study concludes with the developing trajectory and the trend of "Qin School of National Instrumental Music" after the1990s, revealing the post era of "Qin School of National Instrumental Music".The epilogue further explores the significance of the research on "Qin School of National Instrumental Music" and what new epistemic insights this stream of research bring to Chinese professional national instrumental music creation since twentieth Century through an optic on studying professional national instrumental creation.