Research on Chinese Modern Art Songs

Abstract

Chinese modern art songs produced at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, is an important theme of the early development of Chinese modern new music, has an important position in the history of the development of Chinese modern music. At that time, some composers who studied music in foreign countries began to try to use the combination of excellent traditional Chinese poetry and the accompaniment of western Musical Instruments, the piano, to create art songs with a strong Chinese flavor, which gradually began to spread. In the 1930s and 1940s, more and more musicians devoted themselves to the field of artistic song creation, and they created a considerable number of excellent artistic songs with different themes and forms. The creation of Chinese art songs not only embodies the spirit of The Times, but also opens up a new way of creation.