Research On The Creative Characteristics Of Huang Zi’s Art Songs

Huang Zi(1904 ～ 1938)is a well-known professional music educator,composer and professional music theorist in the flood of music history of our country,he put forward the slogan of “New Music of Nationalization”,and combined with symphony,Piano Polyphony,Solo,chorus,Oratorio and other art forms to create practice,which has become a major driving force for the development of music in China.This paper briefly describes Huang Zi’s music life course,music creation of various genres and the classification of art songs according to the content,and takes some of Huang Zi’s more classic art songs as an example,from the perspective of national mode,tonality,musical structure,phonology and harmony,aiming at the embodiment of "nationalized new music" in Huang Zi’s art songs and the application of western composition techniques in German and Austrian art songs,through literature combing Functional analysis,empirical analysis and comparative analysis.The study found that he combined China’s long-standing cultural tradition with the western composition theory system,and used the characteristics of five tone national mode or six or seven tone national mode with partial tone in the creation of song melody;Integrate Chinese traditional poetry culture,construct the framework according to the paragraphs of poetry,and the length of melody sentences changes according to the length of poetry words and sentences.In the sentences,the melody trend follows the characteristics of the ups and downs of poetry rhyme and pronunciation;The application of composing techniques such as parallel intervals,chords,seven chords with disharmony and tension,and variable chords is a common means.Therefore,through the analysis of word by sentence,it is found that Huang Zi’s art songs are not long,but exquisite and elegant.I hope to guide my performance practice and further improve my artistic practice ability through the study and research of these contents.