| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣藝術大學 === 中國音樂學系碩士班 === 101 === Mr. Wang Jian Min is among the most renowned Chinese classic and folkloric composers. Since his first master Chinese Guzheng piece Fantasia in 1989, he has composed and published a considerable number of Guzheng music works featuring legendary and modernized composition styles. He devoted his knowledge and effort toward perpetuating traditional music, and at the same time he produced new works influenced by modern Western music compositions. He eventually made peace with these two drastically different styles and created his own Guzheng musical pieces by featuring a new way of expressing, creating and evolving musical language through Guzheng.
This thesis examines on Mr. Wang Jianmin’s nine master Guzheng music pieces. It focuses on the disciplines and unique characteristics of Mr. Wang’s composition involving some of the development of classical texts, historical research papers, previous interviews of the composer, an analysis of music notes, and finally my own personal experience of performing, understanding the philosophies of his original creation, and interpreting Mr. Wang's nine pieces. The result of research shows that Mr. Wang's foundation in traditional Chinese composition and unique ability with the support of the entire music piece in different guises. In his case, it is not a particular folk tune but a general musical feature: as manifested in his core piece. These new compositions, which embody the unique rhythm, layers of sound, and timbre, are now available to present a new experience of Guzheng. As I myself wish, from my very own performing and interpreting experiences, that through his total immersion in his traditional elements , and dynamites in his music, appreciate the different nuances and subtleties in the realm of music.
He mixed the different cultural elements and musical styles in his composition, although the intricacy is not elaborately and fully interpreted with impeccable technique. Certainly, it is his depth of musical thinking and structural design of the music piece that distinguishes his work from the common practices and gives his pieces their characteristic coloring. The research and analysis of the nine master pieces shows that since 1990 Mr. Wang has contributed to the development of the Guzheng tradition.
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