A Selection of Chinese Vocal Works (with Piano Accompaniment Score)

Author: Xu Lang
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Publish Date: 2000-04-01
Features: This book primarily selects outstanding works created after 1984, some of which are award-winning pieces from the National Art Song Composition Competition. It also includes a selection of excellent songs from the May Fourth Movement era, a small number of opera excerpts, and folk songs adapted for voice. These songs possess significant ideological and artistic value. Foreign Vocal Works Selection compiles art songs and opera excerpts composed by world-renowned composers from Handel to Rachmaninoff from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Some of these works have been cherished by people worldwide for centuries and hold great value in the training of vocal techniques for opera singing. This book is suitable as supplementary teaching material for vocal music education in higher art colleges and normal universities. Teachers can choose from it based on students' actual abilities, adhering to the principle of progressive learning. It can also serve as performance repertoire for vocalists and vocal enthusiasts. Vocal music is a complex art. Human voices vary in tone quality, timbre, and volume from person to person. Scientific methods classify vocal types in strict and detailed ways, even within the same vocal range, with distinctions such as lyrical and dramatic styles. Therefore, a large number of vocal teaching materials in various styles and types are needed to accommodate both teaching and performance. These two textbooks collect 120 outstanding vocal works from both China and abroad. Chinese Vocal Works Selection primarily selects outstanding works created after 1984, some of which are award-winning pieces from the National Art Song Composition Competition. It also includes a selection of excellent songs from the May Fourth Movement era, a small number of opera excerpts, and folk songs adapted for voice. These songs possess significant ideological and artistic value. Foreign Vocal Works Selection compiles art songs and opera excerpts composed by world-renowned composers from Handel to Rachmaninoff from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Some of these works have been cherished by people worldwide for centuries and hold great value in the training of vocal techniques for opera singing. This book is suitable as supplementary teaching material for vocal music education in higher art colleges and normal universities. Teachers can choose from it based on students' actual abilities, adhering to the principle of progressive learning. It can also serve as performance repertoire for vocalists and vocal enthusiasts.