Music Study Of Xia Liang’s Piano Concerto "Sounds Of The Cloud River"(Double Piano Version)

The piano Concerto "Sounds of the Cloud River" is a large-scale work created by composer Xia Liang in 2016.The first performance of the work in 2017 was highly praised and sought after by people in the music industry.This work not only depicts the local customs and natural landscape of Yunnan,but also expresses the emotion of folk music and the pursuit of aesthetic art.As an excellent piano music work bearing the traditional Chinese culture,it illustrates how to tell the national story well with the national music language.On the other hand,the composer uses superb artistic creation techniques to break the inherent creative ideas and pursue individuality while pursuing the nationality of the works.The combination of nationality and modernity reflects the ingenious combination of western music creation techniques and national and folk music in the aspects of genre form,rhythm combination,structure arrangement and texture characteristics.It achieves the harmony and unity of nationality and modern style,spirit and art,which not only shows the unique charm of folk music culture,but also contains rich aesthetic thoughts,and has irreplaceable charm from both aesthetic and literary perspectives.On the creation level,the musical structure of the three movements is not strictly traditional,and each music theme content is composed of a number of short music materials.The use of harmony is unique but not lack of strong national color;The refinement and adaptation of Yunnan traditional folk song melody gives the works new vitality;The use of linear texture,the combination of Western polyphony techniques and the combination of pantonality,atonality and pentatonic mode make the whole work exude a unique artistic charm.In addition,the performance of the whole work also requires a high artistic level.On the basis of the piano playing technique with profound skills,more attention should be paid to the artistic emotion expression of the work,so as to explore the aesthetic thoughts contained in the work at a deeper level.The piano concerto "Sounds of Cloud River" cleverly integrates artistic beauty with technical beauty,which has the value of in-depth analysis and research.In this paper,literature research method,interview method,performance method and other research methods are adopted to conduct a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the three movements,in order to provide some reference materials for people who want to know and play this work in the future.In addition,through the analysis of this work,we hope to attract more players to know the rich traditional music culture of Yunnan,understand the local culture and customs of Yunnan,and understand the piano music creation of Xia Liang.The author divides the research content of this paper into six parts: the first part is the introduction,which mainly describes the basis of topic selection,research purpose and significance,research methods and research status;The second part mainly discusses the introduction of the composer,the piano works and the creation background of the works.The third part is the analysis of music ontology,from the three movements of the musical structure,tonality,national harmony,folk melody four aspects of discussion;The fourth part is the interpretation of performance,from the rhythm,touch keys and timbre,strength and speed,two pianos cooperation four aspects.The fifth part is the research on the cultural connotation of folk music,which expounds the national emotions,personal feelings,aesthetic thoughts contained in the works and inheriting and carrying forward the excellent folk music culture at a deeper level.The sixth part is the conclusion,which summarizes the music research of this work and expounds the conclusion of the research of this work.