| Mr. Zhao Jiping is a famous composer in China, with a great number of musical works, and loved by the mass. He is called "a composer with Chinese national cultural spirits and western region characteristics" and "a milestone figure in Chinese music area. Zhao Jiping has a deep affection and complete understanding on Chinese fork music. Not matter his movie or TV works or absolute music works, they are all of intense folk style, heart-warming feature, and a idiosyncrasy of times, nationality and individuality. Mr. Zhao has a clear thought for composing, precise attitude and a special creative idea and skill.Symphonic Suites Qiao's Grand Courtyard is based on TV series titled Qiao's Grand Courtyard, which was finished in 2007 after three years' efforts. This suites described the affection and experience of Qiao Zhiyong's whole life as a Late Qing Dynasty merchant in Shanxi, which consists of six chapters as sinfonia, aspiration, love, business, pains and fading affection.The materials of the suites stems from our national and folk culture, through the creative skill of the combination of traditional composing method with modern theories. This works has taken the developmental skill as "key motivation" and creation skill as "same starting part, different ending" in the aspect of melody formula; there are also some music pattern like Zhi, Gong, Jue and western ones; about harmonic, three-fold set, five-fold and the mix have the functions of colorful nature and its cooperation with melody; as the mode of suites is concerned, many parallel paragraphs and single trilogy are put into use; as for musical organs, the western and national organs are put together with solo, unison and chorus.The success of creation and the performance of the suites not only enlightened us about how to learn from and apply the national music, but also play a role of modeling and incentive to Chinese symphonic creation. |
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