Attitude towards China's Traditional Music Creation

"It refers to the music created by the people of China with their own inherent methods and forms, which has its own inherent morphological characteristics, including both ancient works produced in history and handed down to this day, as well as contemporary works. It can be seen that traditional music includes "national music" but not "new music", but they are all "China music". Traditional music is an extremely important part of China national music. The difference between traditional music and new music lies not in the time of creation, but in the form of expression and style characteristics. For example, Erhu solo "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" and "Fishing Boat Singing Night" are modern music works, but their playing forms are inherent in the Chinese nation, so they are also traditional music. On the contrary, the school song and piano solo "Shepherd Boy Piccolo" are not traditional music because they borrow the musical morphological characteristics of western music. The division of traditional music was first seen in the Introduction to National Music compiled by China Conservatory of Music, which can be divided into five categories: songs, song and dance music, rap music, opera and instrumental music. However, most colleges and universities incorporate song and dance music into folk songs in their teaching, so it becomes four categories: folk songs, national instrumental music, folk art (that is, "rap") music and opera music. Actually, "national music", "traditional music" and "folk music" are three different concepts: "national music" includes traditional music and new music; And "folk music" is just a category of traditional music. Moreover, our national music is very rich, including court music, religious music and literati music besides folk music. Mr. Du divided China traditional music into: folk music, literati music, religious music and court music; Among them, folk music includes folk songs, national instrumental music, national songs and dances, opera music and rap music; Literati music includes guqin music, poetry chanting and literati self-tuning; Religious music includes Buddhist music, Taoist music, Christian music, Iranian music, Shamanism and other religious music; Court music includes sacrificial music, court music, welcome music, sightseeing music and banquet music.