On Contemporary Ethnic Instrumental Melody Creation with Wang Jianmin's Erhu Rhapsody as an Example
The three academic conferences on melody and China's music theoretical discourse system held since July,1998 have unanimously agreed that melody is one of the important disciplines in the construction of China's music theoretical system,and that in the professional teaching and creative practice of musical composition,melody should be regarded as the fifth major thing in addition to the"four major pieces of composition"of harmony,polyphony,musical form and orchestration.This arti-cle takes five rhapsodies created by Wang Jianmin as an example,focusing on various elements such as melody lines,tonal mode conversion,rhythm and beat,and analyzing how to coordinate the relation-ship between inheritance,development,and innovation in their melody creation.It is hoped to provide reference and assistance for contemporary ethnic instrumental music creation so as to play an impor-tant role in continuously promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of excel-lent traditional Chinese culture.
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