Wu Zuqiang and Du Mingxin are excellent composers and musical educationalists in New China musical history. All pieces of music created by two composers with broad themes and various styles, can be seen as great works with deep professional and high artistic value, which reflect the artistic talent of the two composers. In particular, Pantomime Ichthyic Peri, jointly created by the two composers, has made a sensation and become the well-known classic works.The composers combine the relatively independent paragraphs into homonymy piano cento and publish it. The whole cento works is the first one that takes myth as the theme in Chinese piano music and admired by pianist and a number of piano lovers. With fluent tones, colorful texture writing ,clear musical forms, concise writing, high-content piano techniques, as well as strong ethnic flavor, the music has very high practical value in China's piano performance field.The author chooses piano centos Ichthyic Peri as research target, analyzing them from many aspects such as its creating background, creating techniques and performance skills. The author also adopts the multi-angle analysis, with individual unique view and thought mode, to explore its deep connotation and meanings.The thesis discusses from the following three parts:I. Introduction: It narrates from two aspects, that is, importance and significance of the selected topic, concerning the research on this classic works at home and abroad, to put forth the main contents of narration.II. Theme: It is the main body of this thesis and divided into four parts.Chapter 1 Background information and music creation career of composers, Wu Zuqiang and Du MingxinSummarizing, comparing and selecting different historical materials, the author narrates the creating experience, phases, and major works of the composers, which does good for in-depth and comprehensive research on the style of Pantomime Ichthyic Peri selected songs.Chapter 2 General Introduction of Pantomime Ichthyic PeriFirstly, explain the definition of Pantomime briefly; secondly, make necessary narration for the creation background, main content , style and characteristics of the classic works;Chapter 3 Analysis on the creating techniques of piano cento Ichthyic PeriThis part makes the detail description, analysis and exposition on the creating techniques of piano cento Ichthyic Peri. It mainly focuses on five aspects, as harmony, melody, rhythm and time, texture writing and musical forms of the works, to comprehensively grasp the writing features and music style of the composers, which reaches a comprehensive and thorough understanding and helps us to better address this works.Chapter 4 Analysis on the performance skills of piano cento Ichthyic PeriBy my own experience of studying and performing Ichthyic Peri, the author comprehensively analyzes its requirements and rules from piano touching technique, dynamic and speed, application of piano's treadles and design of fingering to provide theoretical foundation for artistic performance. Furthermore, the author expects the overall display of the works'artistic and historical value so that the works can be appreciated by more people.ConclusionThe author finally summarizes the analyzed and proved points, attains the main point, and invokes deep discussion. |