Orchestration Analyzation Of Huang Anlun’s Funeral March

Funeral March is the second movement of Symphony NO.1 in C major(OP.25c,the final part of Symphony Concert NO.1),written by Chinese famous composer Huang Anlun.In Funeral March,he combines new modernn music skills with traditional music creative ideas,showing"Beauty" through music.This essay focuses on the orchestration of Funeral March,analyzing timbre,dynamics,rhythm and so on in perspectives of details and entirety.This essay will compare the composition’s orchestration with classical music,impressionist music and modern music to further comprehend Huang Anlun’s creative ideas and conclude its orchestration and music styles:Based on the "weakness and dimness" of the music sound,Huang Anlun’s Funeral March is close to classical period,while from the perspective of "richness and delicateness" of timbre,it is closer to impressionist music.It even employs new instrumentation which only applies in modern works.Huang Anlun’s Funeral March includes some modern skills,abiding by aesthetic principle of classism as well as adding his own aesthetic ideas,which presents a novel feeling.