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Yu Xun Fa was a very famous dizi performer since the end of the 70s in China’s history. He was selected as the member of “Chinese Arts Troupe” in 1974, performing his dizi among more than 30 countries in Europe, Asia, America, Africa and Australia. Moreover, he had been invited to give performances and speeches in Taiwan for 14 times; in addition, he also used to teach at Central Conservatory of Music, Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Tainan National University of The Arts. Owing to his excellent art achievements and performing ability, he was honored as a “national first-class performer” of China and was given “Special subsidy of Government” from State Council of the People's Republic of Chin in July, 1991. His achievements of dizi arts could be concluded as following: 1. Integrated the Chinese classic literature and esthetics of Taoist’s music, providing new intension of dizi performance. 2. His creativity of performing style and accompaniments initiated the possibility of multi-developments in dizi performance. 3. His new 17 dizi performance skills enriched the dizi play and also broadened its new vision. 4. The invention of new whistling could be a solo instrument and also provided new timbre and sound effect for music composers. In short, it is very important and meaningful to organize and analyze Yu Xun Fa’s dizi arts because of his skill innovation, instrument development, the use of Chinese classic literature, the esthetics of Taoist’s music, the new melodies of Dizi play and new performance styles.
This research started with Yu Xun Fa’s life, exploring his influence to dizi arts from the growth and learning environment and time background; moreover, analyzing the features, creative motives and the transformation of dizi melody creation helps to understand the characters of Yu’s dizi arts and to comment the music esthetics from his dizi plays. This report also illustrated and discussed the new 17 dizi performance skills which created by Yu Xun Fa, explaining their influences to later dizi performances and instrument plays.
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