The Adaptation Of Folk Song Can Guide And Promote The Development Of Chinese Vocal Music Art

With the development of the times, the economic ascension and the progress ofscience and technology，art songs with superb media means enter Chinese people’s musiclife for a long time now, and it has become one of the popular music forms. In all kinds ofcomprehensive concerts, vocal works as the main program has occupied an irreplaceableposition, and it often serves as the opening or shows to the audiences as a solo form. Withthe popularity of music education and the improvement of people’s music literacy, thehigher requirements of vocal music art are put forward for the composer’s creative skills,the singer’s voice singing skills and emotional. According to the folk music essence, somecomposers have tried the folk songs for some Chinese national vocal music works overthe years. Moreover,they have tried to retain the style of the original folk songs, and haveused the regional dialects and pronunciation of the original folk songs in some Chinesenational vocal music works. Some composers could show the taste of the original folksongs, even draw some western composing techniques skillfully in the process ofadaptation. This not only conform to the new trend of the times, the aesthetic needs andthe appreciation level of the public, but also can make the singer’s voice skills andperformance skills display fully. It is fully staffed！These vocal art works from traditionalfolk songs not only often are showed by many professional singers, but also are teached insome Art Colleges. This article takes the composer Zhixin Wang ’s art songs "The RedPeach and the White Apricot Flower "," Meng Jiangnu " and the composer Tingjiang Hu’s art song "Maira variations" for example. It bases on different aspects of the analysis ofmusical structure, the change of tonality, the way of melody development, thecharacteristicac of accompaniment, the style of singing and the inspiration of these threeadaptations of folk songs etc. to study the guidance role and the promotion role in thedevelopment of Chinese vocal music art.