Teh Musical Form And Heteronomous Content Research Of Yao Heng Lu "Zodiac"

"Zodiac" is a piano suite composed by Professor Yao Henglu,a famous composer and music theorist in China,according to the long-standing zodiac culture,each musical work contains the character characteristics of each zodiac animal,so that the strong and inclusive zodiac culture shines with new brilliance in Chinese piano music,and the Chinese zodiac culture expands to the field of piano music and spreads the masterpiece.This project takes Yao Henglu’s piano suite "Zodiac" as the research object,conducts in-depth analysis and research on this work from the perspective of modern music composition techniques and musical aesthetics,and provides players and appreciators with a multi-dimensional aesthetic perception of the national nature of Chinese piano music.This article is divided into five chapters.The introduction to the first chapter expounds the purpose and significance of the research project,the research review,the research content and the method.Chapter 2 analyzes and sorts out the historical origin of the zodiac culture,the connotation of zodiac animal culture and the basic overview of the creation of the piano suite "Zodiac" from the perspective of history and culture.The third chapter starts from the musical form of the piano suite of "Zodiac",deeply analyzes its works from multiple angles,and starts with the creation of musical forms such as diversified rhythm and beat colors,national melodic expression techniques,national key harmony,and song structure,and finds that the composer adopts modern composition techniques and integrates national music elements into piano music.Chapter 4 explores the musical heteronomous content with the visual of musical aesthetics,including the pictorial and literary aspects of the piano suite of the "Zodiac",and the composer uses the three factors of line,color and shape in the pictorial content of the other law to shape the acoustic effects,and uses different musical forms to portray the character of the zodiac animals.Through research,it is found that the "Zodiac" also contains three factors:process,conflict and lyricism,which implies the expression of the Chinese lyricism and narrative of music,so as to derive the literary connotation of the Chinese national zodiac contained in the music.Chapter 5 compares the two pieces of "Zodiac" with two animal-themed piano music in the West,explores the different musical shaping power and personality style characteristics of the same animal-themed piano music in different Chinese and Western countries under their own unique cultural backgrounds,compares the similarities and differences between musical forms in animal image shaping and literary theme connotation in other rhythmic and literary content,and deeply feels the musical and cultural characteristics between the other rhythmic music content in the four works of China and the West.Through the study of the musical form and other rhythmic content of Yao Henglu’s "Zodiac" piano suite,this paper promotes the collision and integration of modern Chinese piano music with the traditional multicultural connotation of China.