Luo Zhongrong's personal works

Mr. Luo is a teacher and a writer. His major works include: Paul Hindemith's Traditional Harmony, Composition Techniques, George Perle's Sequential Music Writing and Atonality, Charles Wuorinen's Concise Composition Method, and Allen Forte's Harmonic Organization of The Rite of Spring

The folk ensemble Night of Spring Flowers and Moonflower, and the dance music Peacock Dance won gold prizes at the 1955 and 1957 World Youth Festival respectively. were awarded gold medals at the 1955 and 1957 World Youth Festivals respectively; the choral piece Ten Mile Street Sends the Premier was awarded the first prize for the performance celebrating the 30th anniversary of the founding of the PRC; the orchestral pieces Three Guangdong Folk Music Pieces and Pipe Quintet were awarded the Excellence Prize and the Second Prize for Composition at the national awards in 1981; the orchestral poem Dark Fragrance- The symphonic poem "Dark Fragrance - For Zither and Orchestra" won the second prize in the Eighth National Competition of Musical Works (Symphonic Music) in 1994, and Mr. Luo's Symphony No. 1 and String Quartet No. 2 were nominated for inclusion in the "Twentieth-Century Chinese Musical Classics" in 1992. Mr. Luo's musical works are mainly symphonic music, chamber music and art songs. Most of his works have a distinctive Chinese national style. In addition to in-depth study of Chinese traditional and folk music, he has also studied Western traditional and modern compositional theories and techniques, which has led to the diversification of his compositional techniques and styles. His major works include:

(1) Orchestral music: two symphonies, two symphonic overtures, five symphonic tone poems, and four orchestral suites.

(2) Chamber music: three pieces for string quartet, one piece for wind quintet, one piece for horn and piano sonata, three pieces for string orchestra, and "Rhythm of the Zither" for guqin and chamber orchestra.

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(3) Piano Pieces: Three Sonatas Minor, two sets of Five Pentatonic Scale Preludes and Subludes, and Three Piano Pieces.

(4) Vocal Pieces: more than thirty art songs, choral pieces and folk song adaptations.

(5) folk orchestra music: "Moonlit Night on the Spring River" (adapted), "Peacock Dance" (dance music). Guqin and folk music ensemble "Rhythm of the Qin".

In addition to his musical works, Luo Zhongrong has also published: Music Theory: Preliminary Exercises in Composition; Translations of Paul Hindemith's Traditional Harmony, Paul Hindemith's Craft of Musical Composition, I and II. Composition, Volumes I and II, George Perle, Serial Composition and Atonality, Charles Wuorinen, Simple Composition, and Ellen Hindemith, Traditional Harmony, Volumes I and II, Paul Hindemith, Traditional Harmony, Volumes I and II, Paul Hindemith, Craft of Musical Composition, Volumes I and II, George Perle, Serial Composition and Atonality, Charles Wuorinen, Simple Composition, and Ellen Hindemith, Simple Composition. Composition by Charles Wuorinen, and The Harmonic Organization of The Rite of Spring by Allen Forte. In addition, he has written and translated several scholarly articles.