The paper examines piano works of Chu Wanghua, an outstanding
contemporary Chinese composer and pianist. He created composi-
tions for choir, orchestra, solo instruments, and piano. His music is
characterized by a contemplative type of imagery, associated with
the implementation by musical means of the theme of the harmony
of human and nature, aesthetic feelings caused by the landscapes
of his native land. Reliance on Chinese folklore prototypes creates
special types of modal-tonal and rhythmic organization, monody,
fl uidity and veiling of the boundaries of a composition, predomi-
nance of variational principles of form construction.
Keywords: Chinese folklore, song, creativity, traditional instruments, musical landscape,
program music, piano art.
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