Li Jinguang And His Songwriting Research

L i Jinguang as one of the representatives of early popular music of the 20th century, four decades Shanghai famous songs (then known as "the era song") composer. His songs, not only to the people who living in the city of Shanghai to spiritual solace, but also a precious asset of early popular music history. By collecting various types songbook published in the period of the Republic of China, The author has confirmed that he compose songs have 153, and were used pseudonym Li Jinguang, Jin Yugu, (Li) Qiniu, Jingang, Nongqiao and Yinzhu, and the creation time from 1938 to 1949; There are also seven others from the China HowNet and recorded in someone else’s book.Through analysis of these 160 songs, the author found that these songs can be divided into three different styles:"ethnic style","dance music style"and"jazz style". Ethnic tunes, dance rhythms and jazz orchestration is more commonly creative approach that Li jinguang used. These three different styles can be summed up both his own creation features, these three different styles can be summed up his own creation features, but also represents the pop songs overall style of the 1930-40s. Thus, by Li Jinguang writing style analysis and historical context of survival, then you can spy on the entire pop music trends and outlook to some extent.His songs, described many Shanghai story.