On Famous Composers and Masterpieces of Modern Chinese Music

Author: Su Xia
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: The book primarily features the author's very familiar elders, colleagues, friends, and students, who have now become masters or outstanding figures in the music world. For the living, in addition to expressing respect, the author also offers advice or guidance, all for their careers. This is an essay collection reviewing composers and their works, discussing their personalities, character, and artistic integrity, researching their creative methods, and providing specific analyses of their compositions. The author's profession is music composition teaching, with composition as a secondary pursuit, and music criticism as a hobby. As an academic teacher, the author has studied a vast number of works from ancient and modern times, both Chinese and foreign, to use as examples during individual lessons, addressing students' creative challenges. Sometimes, the author also needs to revise exercises. This essay collection records the author's recent academic journey, with limited space, only selecting and printing a portion of the essays. To preserve historical authenticity, the original texts remain unaltered.