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Yuen-Ren Chao was an important composer and linguist in the May 4th Movement,who also made a futher research in Chinese Language.Choa made lots of brand-new ideas in composition by performing the characteristic of Chinese Tone and intonation,as Chao’s masterly performance on Eastern and Western modes,he did show the different thoughts on music. The main subject of the thesis is based on four art songs from Chao’s work”the new poetry collection”,by analyzing the musical form,compose structure and rhythm of words,we may discuss and comprehend the wonderful conception of his music and the three poets’words. All content of the thesis includes five chapters:Chapter One-The motive and Scope,Chapter Two-Biography of Yuen-Ren Chao and his style of the art songs,Chapter three-Biography and the literature style of three poeters ”Wu-Rou Zhou” ”Da-Bai Liou” ”Ban-Nong Liou” , Chapter four-The analysis and presentation in composition of “Over the Indian Ocean” , ”Selling Cloth ballad” , ”How could I help thinking of her” and ”La Traviata in the drinking song” ,and the Chapter Five-Conclusion, as the final chapter to present whole idea of study. According to the analysis and presentation of these four art songs,we hope that the readers can have further understanding and comperhersion in Chao’s words,also provide a further reference to the singers in the future.
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