To Conservatory Fifty-six Piano Ditty And Sound Characteristics,

The paper is theoretically guided by composer Zuyin FAN's book,"Theory and method of Chinese pentatonic scales"and practically guided by his music work,"fifty-six piano pieces". Based on analyzing the harmony characteristics of fifty-six piano pieces and combining with the predecessors'research results, we can summarize the national harmony characteristics of this piano work.This paper consists of three chapters,"The brief introduction of the composer","Analysis of the 56 piano pieces"and"The national mode and harmony method".Chapter 1 is"The brief introduction of the composer". This paper explored the composer's academic road, academic thoughts and concluded his academic achievement from three different angles, musicology, composition theory and composition practice.Chapter 2 is"Analysis of the 56 piano pieces". Selecting sixteen representative pieces from the fifty-six piano pieces, making a concrete analysis of tonalities and harmony characteristic.Chapter 3 summarized the national melodies and harmony characteristics by analyzing Zuyin FAN's work.The last chapter is divided into four sections: 1.Tonality characteristics and harmony applications of the fifty-six pieces. 2. Piano Pieces in the vertical and horizontal integration and vertical pitch together. 3. Harmonic texture's imitation the instruments of national characteristics through his works. 4. Various techniques of harmony intervals and termination of the structure, additional primary chords.Overall, the collection of fifty six pieces piano is basing on pentatonic mode and composing by Chinese national music material, using pentatonic harmony. In practical compositions, three factors are expurgated. In piano works, Zuyin Fan arranged the harmony characteristics in a way of concision,clarity and be full of national characteristics. Through researching and analyzing Zuyin Fan pentatonic harmony theory and fifty six piano compositions, we can learn how to use these skills performing national music by various structures—that is the integration of national mode and harmony.