THE SYNTHESIS OF ROMANTIC WESTERN EUROPEAN TRENDS AND NATIONAL CHINESE MEANS OF EXPRESSION IN XIAO YUMEI'S ART SONG TO THE POEM AND WEIZHAI «POPLAR FLOWER»

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to identify stylistic trends in the composer's chamber vocal works through a comprehensive analysis of musical expressive means and architectonics of Xiao Yumei's representative song «Yanhua» – «Poplar Flower».
Research methods: historical – to outline the stages of development of the chamber vocal genre; source study – to study scientific literature; structural and analytical – to analyze the composer's chamber vocal works, determine the
style, semantic content and features of the composer's musical language.
The scientific novelty of the work is determined by the fact that it is the first to study the peculiarities of musical thinking and musical language of the composer Xiao Yumei on the example of the Chinese author's song «Poplar
Flower» to a poem by the contemporary poet Yi Weizhai.
Conclusions. A detailed analysis of the expressive means: melody, harmony, rhythm, as well as the correspondence between the poetic text and its musical embodiment demonstrated to what extent the composer used European late romantic features of compositional creativity in combination with traditional Chinese features.
In Xiao Yumei's Chinese art song «Poplar Flower» based on the poem by the contemporary poet Yi Weizhai, the artist demonstrated the romantic and lyrical trend of poetry, the important role of piano accompaniment in musical drama, the use of complex expressive means, primarily harmonic, as well as a rather complex form of organizing the musical fabric – a through form with signs of three-partness. All these European romantic features appear in synthesis with classical Chinese national characteristics.