This study selects representative works from the past century of Chinese popular music that employs pentatonic scales,traditional melodic developing methods such as jiahua(adding flower),jianhua,(delete flower)yuyaowei(connected head to tail),lianhuankou(interlocked rings),jiaduo(adding beats),as well as traditional music structures such as guoque,hewei(ending on the same phrase),and one song for multiple pur-poses.Through musical analysis,this article explores the existence and development of traditional Chinese music structural thinking in contemporary popular music creation,which aligns with Chinese national aesthetics.It seeks to discover how traditional Chinese music forms and structures can be utilised in popular music and to es-tablish a methodological system for composing contemporary popular music with Chinese characteristics and dis-course.
关键词
中国传统音乐结构/中国流行音乐/旋法/鱼咬尾/连环扣/合尾/腔音列
Key words
Traditional Chinese music structure/Chinese popular music/melodic method/yuyaowei/lianhua-nkou/hewei/qiangyinlei