A Study of "Chinese Style" in 20th Century Piano Adaptations of Traditional Chinese Music

Abstract

Traditional music adaptations, which account for the largest proportion of Chinese piano works, have become the concrete embodiment of the universal characteristics of "Chinese style"with their title, melodic tune, cultural connotation, ethnicity of musical language, simulated timbre and sound, and richness of regional characteristics, and so on. It is also the most direct and natural way to realize the "Chinese style" of piano music. In this paper, we select the piano adaptations of traditional Chinese music published by the People's Music Publishing House and the Shanghai Music Publishing House as the object of study, and try to systematically sort out and summarize their nationalization characteristics, hoping to gradually clarify the inner relationship between nationalization and "Chinese style" in the process of in-depth analysis.