The Artistic Characteristics of Chinese Folk Vocal Music

The artistic characteristics of Chinese folk vocal music are as follows:

I. Lyricism

One of the most important characteristics of Chinese folk vocal music is its lyricism. Through singing, it expresses inner feelings, depicts natural scenery, and expresses characters and life scenes, reflecting the emotional expression and vitality of folk vocal music.

II. Ethnicity

Chinese folk vocal music has a strong ethnicity, and its unique musical elements, such as melody, modulation, range and timbre, all have strong regional and ethnic characteristics.

Third, the singing voice

The singing voice of Chinese folk vocal music is very unique, and the rhythm and beat of the music it presents uses many special techniques, such as pizzicato, fingering, overtones, vibrato, and glissando. All of these techniques are able to make the voice softer, gentler and more infectious.

Fourth, rich colors

Chinese folk vocal music also has rich musical colors, its music contains different emotions, rhythms and tunes, and each voice has its own unique timbre and expression. These elements make ethnic vocal music full of vitality and charm.

Fifth, the use of sound

Chinese folk vocal music also has its unique characteristics in the use of sound. It usually employs soft, clear, long and slow tones, as well as a variety of sound changes such as treble, bass and alto. These can make the sound richer and more infectious.

Definition and Style of Ethnic Vocal Music

1. Definition of Ethnic Vocal Music

Chinese ethnic vocal music is represented by ethnic vocal music specializing in China's music colleges and universities, which is different from the singing of folk songs, raps, and operas, but also based on inheriting and carrying forward the essence and characteristics of these traditional singing arts.

Borrowing and absorbing the singing theories and advantages of the Western European American vocal singing method, it is a unique new national singing art with scientific, national, artistic and zeitgeist characteristics.

2. The Style of Ethnic Vocal Music

Over a hundred years from the beginning of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century is an important historical period in the development of Chinese vocal music. Several generations of vocalists, in their efforts to construct a school of Chinese vocal music, have also gradually formed an important artistic landscape in the history of modern Chinese vocal music.

From practical experience, the overly narrow conceptual understanding of Chinese singing has expanded in a broader direction.

This not only reflects the basic tendency of the Chinese vocal music community to change with the changes in the social structure in terms of concepts, methods of thinking and expression of vocal theories, but also reflects the conscious climb of the vocal music community towards a more scientific, advanced and broader stage in theory and practice.

It is unrealistic to attempt to make an ultimate truthful description and delimitation of the vocal music phenomenon, and to expect people to think along one line of thought and follow one pattern. "Various singing methods, artistic concepts, and theoretical doctrines should also be blossomed, and in the larger goal, a hundred schools of art should be allowed to contend and coexist harmoniously."