Several Features of China Opera Music

The characteristics of China traditional opera music are as follows:

1. China traditional opera music is rooted in the people and has a deep mass base. It is closely related to local dialects, folk songs and rap music.

2. The music of various operas is not created by a composer, but the product of the long-term development of folk music, which is the result of collective creation from generation to generation and embodies the artistic wisdom of generation to generation.

3. The traditional opera music in history has been constantly evolving through oral singing. Because of the different conditions and dialects, the tone of oral singing will change greatly.

4. In the history of China opera music creation, singers (performers) are also composers, and the process of singing (performers) is also the process of composing music. In other words, the process of composing music and the process of singing (playing) are integrated into one.

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Inheritance and development:

1, the inheritance of opera music

China traditional music culture is the crystallization of the collective wisdom of the Chinese nation. In the long-term historical development, traditional music has distinctive national characteristics, both in musical expressions and in the use of musical vocabulary. It is not only a musical phenomenon, but also reflects the politics, economy, culture, folk language and aesthetics of various times and places.

2. Diversification of creative thinking

The combination of inheritance and openness. On the basis of not damaging the national aesthetic concept and losing the musical characteristics of this drama, we can further explore the modernization of traditional Chinese opera music in the composition techniques such as singing form, singing method, band composition, harmony, form, polyphony and orchestration.

3. Diversified creative methods.

Innovation of creative skills. The innovation of traditional Chinese opera music is a complex and challenging task. If the innovation of creative thinking is the "software system" in this system engineering, then the innovation of creative skills is the "hardware system" in this system.

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