He Luting Chorus Works Analysis

The chorus is the earliest Christian chant music that originated in Europe，and it is nownearly a thousand years of history. It spread to China dating back one hundred years of history. Alarge number of musicians to lay a solid foundation for the development of China’s chorus,which makes today’s choral career thriving, vibrant. The musician He Luting for the music careerof outstanding contributions can not be ignored. The Contemporary Chinese famous musiccomposer and educator, the old revolutionaries, his life is in service for music career. He is theauthor of choral works for the chorus in the development of our country left a valuable asset. Hischoral works on the basis of artistic, most of them in order to mobilize the masses for thepurpose of the chorus with popular features, not only led to the development of the chorus, alsoencouraged by the morale of the masses have made outstanding contributions.This paper will draw on previous research data, the classification of He Luting’s eachperiod of choral works, art features, the choice of theme, style of study and summarizes thecreation of the He Luting’s choral works in the Chinese choral career as well as Chinese musicon the roadimportant historical significance and historical position.In the first chapter, introduction, it makes a brief introduction for He Luting’s works, andshow the classification. Because of characteristics of the times, HE’s works can be classified intothree categories according to period, the choral works of Before the war of resistance againstJapan, the choral works of During the period of Anti-Japanese War and after the founding of thePeople’s Republic of China choral works. At different times, the works show different contentsand historic significances.Before the war of resistance against Japan, China in the semi-feudal and semi-colonialstate of the toiling masses by the two mountains of oppression, the evil forces of harm theworking people of the lowest level of society, the films of this period is basically based on thesebackground, so HE Luting film-making choral music also expressed thoughts and feelings ofdarkness social complaints. However, during the War of Resistance against Japan, mostly choralmusic show the battle theme, calling the people rising up against Japan, to fight against Japanese.Imperialism has played the role of propaganda encouraged the Chinese people strengthened thedetermination of the war, and enhance the Chinese people confidence for victory. After thefounding of the People’s Republic of China, a hundred things to be undertaken, the works mainlyreflect the development. At this time, HE focused on music education, and his choral works ofthe subject matter is variety. There are mainly adapted from the works of ancient words, pitchedthe performance of the work of the patriotic spirit and the active performance of internationalfriendship works. In chapter3, it shows the characteristics of the overall creation of HE’s choralworks, and it take "guerrilla song" as an example for study. He Luting’s choral works have a very deep national identity, his emphasis on folk music material as the creation. The success of thework is able to infect the masses, full of sincere feelings. His musical structure is clear, concise,and great importance to show real content to the most simple music. The works of greatimportance will be the creation of the polyphonic techniques for choral music, to promote thedevelopment of a multi-part choral works. It create a distinctive real music image, close to thepeople’s living. His works reflect the characteristics of the times, which has important revolutionmeaning. The guerrillas song is the work of the Anti-Japanese War, and it has profound historicalsignificance, so HE consider it as one of the most valuable works. In chapter4, it mainlysummarizes the significance and social status of the of HE Luting’s chorus products.HE’s spirit can be passed so far, it is because he is not just a musician, and is a respectedold revolutionaries. His works have made great contributions to China’s revolution, which aredeeply in people’s hearts. HE’s spirit will be permanently decline.