COMPOSING AND PERFORMING CREATIVITY OF THE CHINESE SINGER DAO LAN IN THE CONTEXT OF CULTURAL TRADITIONS

Abstract

Chinese vocal art is currently experiencing a stage of active development and significant unification in the global context. At the same time, there remain representatives who successfully synthesize modern musical art with the country's traditional musical instruments, poetry and, in general, elements of musical folklore, etc., within the limits of certain musical styles, for example, "Xinjiang". The article is devoted to the compositional and performing work of the composer and singer Dao Lan, who is one of the most popular representatives of the "Xinjiang style". The article contains an analysis of the characteristic features of the "Xinjiang style", in particular: the wide use of folk Xinjiang musical instruments; plot connection of works with Xinjiang folk wisdom, legends, fairy tales; the use of ancient poetic rhyme; inclusion of phraseological units or whole sentences in other languages in the lyrics of songs. The article also examines the performance style of Dao Lan, which is characterized by the synthesis of various methods of sound production, in particular, folk-ethnic, academic and traditional for Chinese opera, as well as various manners, in particular, the "chen sheng" variety of the Daolan-Mukam manner and the "gao qiang" manner ". The article examines the song "The First Snow of 2002" from Dao Lan's album of the same name, which brought the singer popularity; "Reflections on combat friends", in which the Uyghur instrument tanbur is used; "The grapes reached Turfan", the material for which was a Xinjiang legend and which can be considered an example of the "Xinjiang style" based on a combination of factors. The article concludes that Dao Lan's compositional and performing work is synthetic and characteristic of the whole layer of musical art of the PRC, as it combines traditional regional features with modern foreign vocal art, and the interpenetration of elements of musical art from different countries, their mixing causes the formation of original products musical creativity.