History of New China Music: 1949~2000

Author: Ju Qihong
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Publish Date: 2002-11-01
Features: This book systematically organizes and narrates the artistic ideas, language, styles, and historical development changes of the music art of the People's Republic of China over 52 years from a completely new perspective. The author takes the historical development of music creation, music theory, and trends, as well as the evolution and transformation of their styles and concepts, as the main thread. Based on rich historical facts and newly disclosed materials, the book traces the tortuous development of numerous musicians in creation, performance, teaching, and theoretical research. It systematically reviews several major and sensitive historical events in the history of New China's music, offering preliminary summaries and evaluations of their historical contributions and shortcomings. The book devotes extensive space to recording the representative works and creative achievements of prominent composers, singers, performers, conductors, musicologists, and music educators in different historical periods of New China. It also provides detailed and selective accounts of the development trajectories of various musical genres such as songs, symphonies, choral works, folk orchestral music, chamber music, art songs, operas, ballets, and film music in New China, with a focus on reviewing their classic works.