A Study Of Creation Of Shang Deyi's Chorus Works

Professor Shang Deyi is a contemporary famous composer in China, whose works is characterized with graceful melody, sharp image, and sincere feelings as well as emphasizing on nationalization of music. He is adept in connecting western composing technique skills with Chinese traditional music and blending the essence of national art in quantity into his works, which can be regarded as a model of successful using national folk music and correlated techniques. His works is really with profundity and an easy-to-understand approach and suits both refined and popular tastes. Professor Shang always recomposes solo songs into part-singing and chorus, chorus and part-singing into solo songs through the way of pattern transformation, showing his profound art proficiency and representability in reining patter and form as a composer and also his special artistic style and personality in composition of attaching importance to both content and form. This paper employed his chorus works as the main research subject, aiming at revealing his composing techniques and characteristics and summarizing composing experience based on the research into his chorus works.