The Coexistance Of Music And Literature

Music and literature are not only sister arts, but also twin sister arts. Since theancient society, music has been closely related to literature. Ancient ballads, TheBook of Songs, Nine Songs--Chu Ci, Folk Songs of Han Dynasty, Song Ci Poetry,and Sanqu Poems and Short Lyrics of Yuan Dynasty are all complex arts of music andliterature.With the development of history, music and literature have gradually showedrelative independences in categories, but they still keep close relationships. Themusic compositions often get inspirations from literature, and many literary worksdraw nutritions from performance forms and aesthetic moods of music. They ofteninteract intimately and create a new form of art.The creation of art of Jinhui Li who is a famous modern Chinese artist inheritsthe fine tradition of the co-existence of music and literature. He is not only thepioneer of Chinese opera and the founder of Chinese pop music, but also awell-known writer of Children’s literature. He has made great achievements in bothfields of music and literature. Literature is based on words while music works on asound basis. They have different code systems. However, Jinhui Li’s creations of artdo not separate literature from music. He is good at integrating them in an active way.The operas and musicals he composed made high achievements in literature andmusic. The music shows strong literariness and the literature appears vivid musicality,which presents aesthetic characteristics and art accomplishments of the co-existenceand interpenetration of music and literature.We found Jinhui Li’s common aesthetic pursuits in the two disciplines of musicand literature through the internal two-way perspective of Jinhui Li’s music andliterature. His music shows a deep expression of literature. The narrative, conflict andtypicality of literature are present vividly in Jinhui Li’s music. The topics, ideas,structures and languages of his literature all have very strong musicality as well.Jinhui Li is good at making music and literature enriched mutually in order tobroaden the view of performances of music and literature.We found that Jinhui Li’s creation of art is the perfect combination of music andliterature by studying his Children’s musical "Little Painter" as a typical case. First ofall,"Little Painter" shows the beauty of music including the beauty of music structure, music melody and music conception."Little Painter" also appears the beauty ofliterature which contains the beauty of literature topic, literature language andliterature character. All in all,"Little Painter" is the perfect integration of music andliterature.The relationship between music and literature is a traditional and modern topic.Jinhui Li’s compositions of art combine music and literature, which is a successfulexample of the integration of music and literature. He provides valuable experiencesfor contemporary compositions of art and gives us a typical case to explore therelationship between music and literature as well. Promoting experiences andexploring rules of co-existence between music and literature in Jinhui Li’scompositions of art have important significances to flourishing Chinese modern artand deepening the interdisciplinary research of music and literature.