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The role of school songs in the modernization of Chinese music
Cvrčková, Lenka ; Hudeček, Jiří (advisor) ; Lomová, Olga (referee)
Thesis abstract The aim of this thesis is to describe the role of school songs in the modernization of Chinese music. Since the establishment of modern Chinese education school songs have become an important part of Japanese-based teaching materials as well as a tool for introducing and transferring political ideology. The tunes of the early school songs were adapted from Western romantic songs and Japanese school songs, and as I argue, this have shaped the Chinese musical taste towards a greater popularity of music including western compositional elements and thus westernization of music in general. In addition to describing the musical specifics of Chinese school songs, the work focuses on more general questions about the modernization and westernization of Chinese music. Compositions written by Shen Xingong (1869-1947), Li Shutong (1880-1942) and Zeng Zhimin (1879-1929), prefaces to various editions of collected school songs, and articles on the relationship of these songs to the education system in China is the primary focus of the current study. Key words: modernization; Chinese music; school songs; early 20 century
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Xian Xinghai and the Modernisation of Chinese Music in the 1920s-40s
Cvrčková, Lenka ; Hudeček, Jiří (advisor) ; Zádrapa, Lukáš (referee)
Thesis abstract The aim of this thesis is to describe the modernization of Chinese music in the 1920s-40s. Thus the new approaches, establishment of the first Chinese Conservatory, making of the great symphony orchestras and popular genres of this era. The second part of this thesis concerns with composer Xian Xinghai, his life, theoretical approaches and works. It mainly includes the analysis of his Yellow River Cantata the aim of which is to determinate the influences which participate in the final form of this cantata and to show how exactly the composer succeed in combining Western and Chinese techniques of composing. Key words Xian Xinghai; modernization of Chinese music; xin yinyue新音樂; national forms
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