SYNTHESIS OF CHINESE AND EUROPEAN MUSICAL TRADITION IN HUANG JI'S COMPOSITIONAL INTERPRETATION OF POEMS BY ANCIENT CHINESE POETS

Abstract

Problem statement. The leading genre in the work of the outstanding Chinese composer Huang Ji is the art song.
The poetic texts for his musical works were classical poems by poets of the VIII and XI-XII centuries.
The purpose of the proposed article is to identify the typological features of the genre and to comprehend the peculiarities of Huang Ji's musical language. To carry out a comprehensive analysis of musical and expressive means in accordance with the figurative and mood load of the works «Like a Flower – Not a Flower» and «Climbing the Tower», to reveal their symbolic meaning.

The methodological basis of the work is conditioned by the tasks and artistic specificity of the subject of research and includes: a musical and stylistic approach and a comprehensive musicological and structural analysis of the musical material itself.
Presentation of the main material. The analyzed examples of twentieth-century chamber vocal music are two works by composer Huang Ji.
The art song «Like a Flower is Not a Flower» was written by Huang Ji in 1933 to a poem by Bo Ju, an ancient poet of the sixth century (VIII-IX centuries)and the composition «Climbing the Tower» to the lyrics of Wang Zho (XI-XII centuries). Conclusions. Thus, in the musical embodiment of the poems of the ancient Chinese poet of the VIII-IX centuries Bai Ju and the poet of the XI-XII centuries Wang Zhou, the early twentieth-century composer Huang Ji combined traditional Chinese melodic intonation and structural features with the Western European harmonic system of C major. The composer's musical language is based on narrow melodic and intonational turns and a variant principle of
deployment of the musical fabric, which are organized using the modes of Chinese traditional music with a romantic
harmonic vertical. In these works, Huang Ji created an individual unique musical language that differs from both
traditional Chinese pure pentatonic and the Western classical-romantic major-minor tradition.