On Artistic Level Of Shang Deyi's Vocal Music

Professor Shang Deyi is an outstanding composer and educationist in the field of modern music in China. He has composed a great deal of excellent vocal music with wide popularity, high ideological connotation and broad social influence. He is good at combining western composing skills with traditional Chinese music and created musical work with noticeable spirits of the time and rich ethnic style. He has contributed a lot to the development of Chinese vocal music.The essay focuses on the vocal music by Professor Shang Deyi. Through the elaboration of his vocal music creation and classification of his work, the essay analyzes the spiritual connotation and ideological pursuit in terms of coloratura music, artistic music and chorus music from the aspects of choice of material, artistic style, lyrics, melody and piano accompaniment. By doing so, the essay tries to deepen the understanding of the ideological connotation such as truth, virtue and beauty in his vocal music. Thus we can get a better understanding of his noble personality and spirits. The ideological level of artistic work is decided by the spiritual level of the very artist. In the fifty years of creation, Professor Shang Deyi has always been enthusiastic about his career with the indispensable spirits and attitude of an artist. His work manifests the quality of beauty as well as noble moral integrity and perfect creation skills. His work is profound in terms of emotion, explains the profound in simple terms and also suits both refined and popular taste. He praises truth, virtue and beauty in his work. He is sincere and honesty in life, and pursue excellence in his artistic creation. All of these help his work reach a very high ideological level.