| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 民族音樂研究所 === 102 === The process of performing arts depends on the impetus of compositions. Shanhai Conservatory of Music has held the 2010 National Academic Seminar on Erhu Teaching and Composition in Music Universities and Colleges in China to push erhu arts to another peak. The piece, The Impression of Red Territory, the study is going to discuss is so distinctive from others concerning the composing method that is given the third place in the competition. In this professional and severe competition, not similar to others entries, The Impression of Red Territory puts emphasis on the melodic lines of erhu instead of the modern, complex and highly difficult performing techniques. This concern is also the reason encouraging this study to analyze the piece and to comprehend David Qu’s, the composer, composing concepts.
The study starts from literature reviews in three aspects: the piece itself, music in Yunnan area and composing methods. Next, the researcher will arrange interviews with the composer and the performer who made the debut of Qu’s entry to clarify related issues. On the other hand, based on the former data and results of the music analysis and video observation discussed, the researchers will provide personal viewpoints and performing interpretation concerning the piece to conclude the whole study.
The Impression of Red Territory is a representative erhu work David Qu. He presents musical materials of Yunnan area through motif, mode, melody and harmony, taking the advantage of musical form to continuously represent and vary the melodic theme , and makes the piece fully display his two composing idea: one is the melodic music, the other is to be understood. Though the whole piece is simple and pure, we can see the confirmation by the juries from the competition result, and that also reflects the importance of melody in compositions of Chinese music.
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