A Study of the Regional Characteristics of Liu Xiaogeng's Choral Music Works

Ziyu Zhou; Phakamas  Jirajarupat; Xiulei  Ren

doi:10.60027/ijsasr.2024.4654

Authors

Ziyu Zhou Faculty of Fine and Applied Art, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Thailand. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0209-6769
Phakamas Jirajarupat Faculty of Fine and Applied Art, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Thailand. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7601-5626
Xiulei Ren Faculty of Fine and Applied Art, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Thailand. https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5450-9386

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60027/ijsasr.2024.4654

Keywords:

Liu Xiaogeng; , Choral Music Works; , Regionality; , Characteristics Liu Xiaogeng; , Yunnan; , Regional Characteristics

Abstract

Background and Aim: This article takes the regional characteristics of Liu Xiaogeng's choral music works as the main research subject, aiming to sort out the regional music characteristics and regional performance characteristics of Liu Xiaogeng's choral music works, to better guide the creation of contemporary Chinese choral music works.

Materials and Methods: The research method of this thesis is mainly the literature analysis method and qualitative analysis method. The literature analysis method is mainly used to collect and sort out the information about Liu Xiaogeng's choral music works, which mainly comes from China Knowledge Network, Yunnan Provincial Library, Yunnan Provincial Museum of Literature and Art, the Internet, publishers, and purchased books. The qualitative analysis method is mainly used to screen the regional dialect characteristics, regional music style characteristics, regional music theme characteristics, and regional music cultural characteristics used in the relevant literature to classify the categories.

Results: The main purpose of the study is to refine and summarise the regional characteristics of Liu Xiaogeng's choral music works, which include four aspects, namely, regional dialect characteristics, regional music style characteristics, regional music theme characteristics, and regional music cultural characteristics.

Conclusion: Liu Xiaoqeng composes his works with the regional dialect liner notes, folk songs, or ditties of Yunnan Province as his main materials. These dialect liner notes, folk songs, or ditties have very different regional language characteristics and distinctive modal music styles. It is these characteristics that make Liu Xiaogeng's choral music works have distinctive regional characteristics.

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