Study On Harmony Techniques Of Jiang Zuxin’s Piano Works

Jiang Zuxin is an excellent composer and music educator in China.He was once called by Mr.Wang Lisan as ’ a few composers in China ’s music industry who can adhere to their own style ’.He is good at combining Chinese folk music elements and traditional cultural concepts with piano music creation to create piano works with Chinese charm.This paper mainly studies the five sets of piano works created by Jiang Zuxin in his life from three aspects:" Temple Fair " Mountain Flower Collection " Garden Day " First Piano Sonata " and " Proverbs." The first is the study of pentatonic stylized chord materials.It mainly summarizes and sorts out all kinds of pentatonic structural chord materials and summarizes the composer ’s exploration of the pentatonic style of chord structure.The second is the harmony processing of pentatonic melody.It mainly studies the combination of pentatonic melody and seven-tone natural mode harmony,the combination of pentatonic melody and harmony,the combination of pentatonic melody and multi-tone harmony and comprehensive mode and analyzes the characteristics of related harmony techniques.Finally,from the perspective of pitch level set,this paper studies the internal relationship and derivative mode,motivation and pitch structure organization form of pitch in atonal music works,summarizes the important sound sets or cells used by composers in atonal music creation,and how to make the works still have cohesion and unity factors in the case of tonality disintegration.Through the study of the harmony techniques of these music works conceived in the new era and with profound life experience,it reflects how the composer combines the Chinese folk music language,the spirit of Chinese traditional culture with the western tonal harmony,mode harmony and the language form of modern music,and reflects the inheritance and evolution of Chinese composers in piano music creation in the second half of the 20 th century,as well as the change direction of Chinese piano music form and connotation.