Master LiuTianhua : Erhu compositions

Abstract

This dissertation studies a Chinese musician Liu Tianhua and his music works.

Liu Tianhua has made great achievements in erhu compositions. He created ten erhucompositions. These ten erhu compositions has a very significant position in the history of Chinese folk music. In his erhu compositions, he not only inherits Chinese national music, but also learns from western music, an integration between Chinese modes and western modes and creating a new era of erhu compositions.

This dissertation makes a comprehensive study of Liu Tianhua's works in the following four aspects. The first is Liu Tianhua's life and the background of his ten works. This part summarizes the important position of Liu Tianhua in the history of Chinese national music, and explores the creation background of ten works and the social environment at that time. The second is the study of Liu Tianhua's disciples. Liu Tianhua trained the first batch of Erhu players. This dissertation makes a systematic analysis of Liu Tianhua's teachers, students and his students' students. The third is to study the communication status of Liu Tianhua's works. In this part, we study the main communication channels of Liu Tianhua's works. The fourth is the content research and musical form analysis of Liu Tianhua's works, in which we analyze all ten works of Liu Tianhua in detail.

Through in-depth analysis of Liu Tianhua's works, we have a further understanding of erhu, a national musical instrument. He has made great achievements in creation, performance, education, musical instrument reform and other aspects. The study of Liu Tianhua's works plays an important role in guiding the teaching and creation of erhu.

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