Huang Zi is one of the giants filmed in the music section of "One Hundred Years of Masters". Huang was born in Jiangsu in 1904, and 2022 is the 118th anniversary of his birth.
Huang Zi (1904-1938), a native of Chuansha, Jiangsu (now part of Shanghai), was an important composer and music educator in China in the 1930s, and was known as "the grandmaster of a generation of Chinese music". In his early years, he studied composition at Oberlin College and Yale University School of Music. In 1929, he returned to China and successively taught in the Music Department of Shanghai Hujiang University and the National Music Institute Theoretical Composition Group, and concurrently served as the director of the Music Department, enthusiastic about music education, and cultivated many outstanding musical talents. He resigned his teaching post in 1937 to devote himself to the preparation of professional textbooks. He advocated music creation to take the road of national music school and explored the national style of music. His music composition is mainly vocal, and the composition technique of his works is skilled, the expression of emotions is delicate, and it has a high degree of artistry.
Highlights of "Centennial Master - Huang Zi"
A master is a figure who can cultivate many outstanding masters, such as Ip Man in the martial arts. The generation of masters in the history of modern and contemporary Chinese music is none other than Huang Zi. Huang Zi was born on March 23, 1904 in Chuansha County, Jiangsu Province (now part of Pudong New Area, Shanghai), and was admitted to the "Tsinghua School" in Beijing in 1916. "Tsinghua School" is the predecessor of Tsinghua University, founded in 1911, the earliest name is "Tsinghua Xuetang", the word "Tsinghua" is derived from the place name of the school site "Tsinghua Garden", is the Qing Dynasty government set up a preparatory school for studying in the United States, renamed "Tsinghua School" in 1912, renamed "Tsinghua University" in 1928. Huang Zi actively participated in the school music club at tsinghua school and began to contact Western music through the study of piano and vocal music. In the fall of 1924, Huang graduated with honors and went to the United States to study psychology, and entered Oberlin College in Ohio to study psychology, while taking music courses such as music theory, sight singing dictation, keyboard harmony and so on. On November 1, 1935, Huang Zi initiated the establishment of the first Shanghai Orchestra composed of Chinese, with Huang Zi and Tan Xiaolin as the main and deputy directors, and Wu Bochao and Li Weining as the main and deputy conductors. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Huang Zi resigned from the post of director of academic affairs and concentrated on teaching and writing two treatises, "History of Music" and "Harmony And Acoustics". On May 9, 1938, Huang Zi died of typhoid fever at the Shanghai Red Cross Hospital at the age of 34. Before dying, he said to his wife, Ms. Wang Yinian: "You go to the doctor, I can't die here, there is still half of the music history unfinished!" Huang Zi created many "firsts" in the history of Chinese music: China's first symphony "Nostalgia", China's first oratorio "Long Hate Song", and China's first professional-level film title song "Cityscape Fantasia".
Among Huang Zi's many creations, art songs are very dazzling. His songs are delicate in emotion and beautiful in tune, such as "Spring Thoughts", "Homesickness", "Three Wishes for Roses", "Flowers Not Flowers", etc. all have the vitality of singing for a long time. "Three Wishes of Roses" is a representative work of Huang Zi's lyrical songs, written by the famous lyricist Shanghai National Music College Professor Long Qi. The song is straight to the chest, like a sketch outlined in white, full of elegant aristocratic atmosphere, otherworldly, and its melody is beautiful and exquisite is by far the highest model of domestic song creation. The song is very short, less than three minutes, but this art song is nourished by the German art song tradition in terms of melodic structure, harmonic color, melodic texture and overall musical atmosphere, and it will certainly not be inferior if it is placed in the treasure house of Western art songs. But at the same time, the artistic conception conveyed by this song, the delicate emotion expressed by the ups and downs of this melody, but it is really Chinese and Oriental, and it is the loneliness and sadness of the "small garden fragrant path wandering alone", which is silently connected with the gentle Song ci artistic conception.
The song is a two-part structure, with the first twelve bars being the first section, and the whole song begins in a short, slow, quiet and sad overture on the piano. The first phrase begins with "Roses and Roses", which is like a simple white drawing, like a simple proclamation, with a clear and elegant atmosphere and a lofty style. The second phrase increases the range on the basis of the first phrase, the rise and fall of the melodic line is richer, and the expression of emotion is more intense. At this time, the piano accompaniment also seems to be infected by emotions and becomes lively and vivid. After a short connecting sentence, the song moves directly to the second section. After the emotional rendering of the first section, the desire in my heart gushes out - "I wish that the ruthless wind and rain that is jealous of me will not blow / I hope that the amorous tourist who loves me will not climb / I hope that the red face will always be good and not wither / So as to teach me to keep Fanghua" - the use of anthropomorphic techniques and comparative sentences, supplemented by the modular development of the melody, accompanied by the surge of the heart, a wave of victory over the emotions to the climax of the whole song. The three phrases, which reached a climax in range and intensity on the words "jealousy," "love," and "red," respectively, then fell back. Rise again, fall again, where three times. In the concise and fanciful piano ending, everything returns to tranquility.
Huang Zi's art songs are classics in the history of Chinese art songs, on the one hand, he tailors Western techniques according to the artistic temperament of our nation and uses them for his own use, so as to synchronize Chinese art songs with world music; on the other hand, he digs deep into the essence of traditional music, thereby enhancing the aesthetic value of Chinese art songs, and pushing this Kind of Chinese art songs to the world, laying the foundation for China's typical art songs to go to the world.
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The large-scale cultural project "Centennial Masters" is China's first large-scale series of biographical documentaries focusing on the masters and masters who made outstanding contributions to Chinese civilization in the 20th century, and is jointly produced by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Central Radio and Television Corporation, the China Academy of Arts, the Central New Film Group, the China Literature and Art Foundation, and the Centennial Masters (Beijing) Cultural Communication Co., Ltd.
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From 2013 to 2017, the filming of 43 masters in the first season of "100 Years of Masters" has been completed, which is divided into art, calligraphy, Peking Opera, drama, music and literature. The filming of 57 masters in the second season of "100 Years of Masters" has been launched in 2018, adding science and technology, education, traditional Chinese studies, architecture, traditional Chinese medicine, opera, and film, which are planned to be completed one after another, and will be presented with the "100 Years, 100 People, 100 Episodes" documentary, "100 Masters Special Exhibition" and "100 Books Publishing".
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