Li Jinhui Children's Musical "sparrow And Children" And "little Artist" Differences

Lijinhui(1891—1967) is a neoteric creative and innovative musician in China. During the historical period of transformation from the"classroom songs"to professional music composing he developed a school of his own for Chinese folk music with his"children's music for song and dance"and"era music". Especially his composing of the children's music for song and dance in 1920's mainly played the role as the most vivid textbooks in publicizing new culture for children , popularizing mandarin's phonetics and proceeding aesthetic education. All his achievements in this period are very instructive in Chinese neoteric musical history.There are twelve most widespreaded opera for children in his composing of his whole life."sparrow and children"was his first opera for children and"young painter"was the most successful one. As everybody knows, his opera for children was the origin of Chinese opera. Music and play are two basic elements in opera. So, when comparing the difference in these two works we will know more about the origin of Chinese early stage opera and the roads he took in his composing of those opera for children.This article focuses on the research and discussion of the comparison of the plots, music, roles, stage performance and the differences of each section in these two operas for children composed by him. Based on the formal researcher's instruction and study, this article concerned more about the new aspects for deeper study and made people realize that the opera for children did not lose the meaning of existence through these comparison and study. Especially the professional in musical education should understand more about the aesthetic education value of the opera for children and promote this treasured culture heritage and benefit from it in today's quality education.