Selected Works for Violin and Piano by Chen Yi: Western Influences on the Development of Her Compositional Style

................................................................................................................................................. ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .......................................................................................................................... iv LIST OF EXAMPLES ................................................................................................................................ vi LIST OF FIGURES ..................................................................................................................................... vi CHAPTER ONE: A Brief Summary of the Development of Contemporary Music Composition in China Since the 1920s ............................................................................................ 1 CHAPTER TWO: A Big Step Away from Chinese Traditional Composition: Fisherman’s Song, An Early Work by Chen Yi ....................................................................................... 16 2.1. The Cultural Context of Li Zili’s Fisherman’s Song ............................................................................. 16 2.2. Overview of the Cultural Context of Chen Yi’s Fisherman’s Song ...................................................... 19 2.2.1. Childhood Education Cultural Revolution Period .............................................................................. 20 2.2.2. College Education in Beijing .............................................................................................................. 23 2.3. The Two Fisherman’s Songs ................................................................................................................. 26 2.3.1. Formal and Harmonic Analysis of Li Zili’s Fisherman’s Song ......................................................... 26 2.3.2. Formal and Harmonic Analysis of Chen Yi’s Fisherman’s Song ...................................................... 31 2.3.3. Influences on Chen Yi’s Fisherman’s Song from Li Zili’s and Chinese Traditional Music .............. 40 2.3.4. The Western Influences Shown in Chen Yi’s Fisherman’s Song ...................................................... 42 CHAPTER THREE: The Advanced Compositional Devices and Aesthetical Ideas in Romance of Hsiao and Ch’in .................................................................................................................. 45 3.1. Overview of Chen Yi’s Compositional Experience after College ......................................................... 45 3.1.1. Chen Yi’s Graduate Training in Beijing ............................................................................................. 45 3.1.2. Chen Yi’s Life in the United States .................................................................................................... 47 3.2. Romance of Hsiao and Ch’in ................................................................................................................. 52 3.3. How Chen Yi’s Romance of Hsiao and Ch’in Compares to Her Fisherman’s Song ............................ 61 CONCLUSION ........................................................................................................................................... 64 APPENDIX Basic Concepts and Theory of Chinese Music (Modes and Scales) ............................................................ 67 BIBLIOGRAPHY ....................................................................................................................................... 69